WARNING...idiot detecting!!

Posted by lordspudz | | Posted On Wednesday 16 December 2009 at 22:39

I wonder sometimes why I'm not finding much lately.  Well, last Sunday might have something to do with it......

Woke up early and the weather was looking promising, so I decided to have an hour or four detecting on the field I've been working recently.
After having breakfast, making a flask of coffee, taking the dog for her morning walk and loading up the car, I was off.
The field is literally 5 minutes away so, at around 8am I arrived and started to unload the car.  Bugger!!  Forgot my shovel!!
Two things you can't do without when metal detecting...1) a detector, 2) a shovel.  OK, 3, a field...but that is probably obvious.
Back home I went and found the shovel hiding behind the tractor in the workshop.  "Was there anything else I'd forgotten?"  I wondered.  No, couldn't think of anything...so off I went again.
Finally got onto the field, opened my detector bag and.....Bugger!!!  No headphones!!!
I wasn't going to go home AGAIN!! so I thought if I turned the speaker volume full blast I could do without the headphones.  My X-Terra's speaker was loud so the Safari should be positively booming.
Umm..........No.
Sadly, the Safari's speaker system wasn't designed for pumping out the sounds to a field full of illegal ravers, or anything standing 2 inches away from it!!
A little despondent, I carried, on straining to hear the faint beeps.
Fighting the Safari's efforts to be heard was the wind blasting past my ears, accompanied by the constant crackle of the coil sweeping through stubble and the intermittent patter of rain from the occasional showers that were building up into something more threatening.

Did I find anything?  It probably wont surprise anyone when I say I didn't.  Well, nothing of note anyway.  But a lesson was learned.  Make sure, before you leave home, that you have everything you need and if you have to go back, make sure your headphones go with you.

Groat Update....

Posted by lordspudz | | Posted On Tuesday 1 December 2009 at 17:58

My Groat (see previous post), which I thought was a Henry VII, isn't.

I took it to our club meeting last night, along with some other items, and was surprised when a fellow member told me it wasn't a Henry, but an Edward; Edward IV to be exact.  This was confirmed by a coin expert from Gessenhall museum in Norfolk who attends our meetings and judges the finds of the month competitions.

Good news as it makes the coin older then I thought.