Hi from w/yorks

[leepy]

Hello chaps im leepy im 32 from wakefield and have recently been going out with 2 good friends of mine with our metal detectors mine was a cheaper than cheap modle from maplins theres are minelab 750 or something like that anyway iv really really took to it in a big way so i updated to a garret ace 250 and all i will say is its the best 170quid iv ever spent ill post some pics of my finds from my 3 outings with this detector

[leepy]

[mrix]

Hello and welcome leepy
Thanks for posting your finds pic
Cheers
mrix

[Old Jeffers]

Nice going there leepy!! Welcome!

[leepy]

wow cheers chaps i think im really going to enjoy it here

[leepy]

hello chaps .i need a bit of help from you if possible just to identify two finds one is a lead coin that has 2crossed keys on the front an nothing on the back the other is a small coin about the size of a new 5p the only thing you can see on it is the word RULES any ideas would be ace

[Old Jeffers]

Any chance of upping a couple of photos?

[leepy]

yep here ya go m8 an thank you for looking

[Jorvik Andi]

HI Leepy welcome to the forum here, the Garrett Ace is a great little detector as i still use it as a back-up machine having progressed to a minelab explorer II which is a serious bit of kit in my eyes but i'm still learning the machine maybe in another year i'll know it's full potential?

What settings do you run on the Garrett? I found the best setting to be in custom knocking off the first 2 settings and the last one, if you do get a signal which bounces from the first to third setting DIG it! (as this is usually a sign of hammie)

Andi (N.Yorks)

[Old Jeffers]

The lead item with crossed keys is likely to be a post-medieval bale seal.
http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showre ... 33&cat=131
I'm trying to research the 5p sized coin!!
>Couple of hours later: Can't find a British coin with the word 'rules' on it.
Sorry...

[leepy]

old jeffers thank you very much for looking for it fella and im sorry to have wasted a couple of hours of your time and will say a massive thank you for the atrifacts link you posted its very very helpful

[leepy]

HI Leepy welcome to the forum here, the Garrett Ace is a great little detector as i still use it as a back-up machine having progressed to a minelab explorer II which is a serious bit of kit in my eyes but i'm still learning the machine maybe in another year i'll know it's full potential?

What settings do you run on the Garrett? I found the best setting to be in custom knocking off the first 2 settings and the last one, if you do get a signal which bounces from the first to third setting DIG it! (as this is usually a sign of hammie)

Andi (N.Yorks)

hey up fella thanks for posting mate and i normaly just use it in all metal mode then drop it to relics to double check it b4 i dig it but i will try the custom setting as you surgested bud for defo thanks again leepy

[Jorvik Andi]

hey up fella thanks for posting mate and i normaly just use it in all metal mode then drop it to relics to double check it b4 i dig it but i will try the custom setting as you surgested bud for defo thanks again leepy

No problem mate i followed the advice which was the same as i gave you which was given freely by a fellow detectorist, later in the day i had found my first two hammered coins. The reason for taking the last section off in the custom mode is to avoid digging hot rocks (high end coke), if you don't believe me try it and see as other Garrett users will inform you that Garrett's love coke.

Good luck in your hunt and lets see some of your finds posted here.

ATB... Andi

[Ian]

Andi

I have found the same thing with coke, it just loves it

Do you have many areas around York that you can freely detect or has the law clamped down due to it's historical reputation?

Ian

[Jorvik Andi]

Andi

I have found the same thing with coke, it just loves it

Do you have many areas around York that you can freely detect or has the law clamped down due to it's historical reputation?

Ian

Hi Ian detecting in or near York is a little hard for me as i'm a member of the York & District Metal Detecting Club and one of their rules is that you cannot detect on any farms that the club uses or have permission to detect on. Detecting within the City of York is a definate no-no and the council do not allow detecting on any open land or parks so i have to head on out into the countryside. I have permission to detect on a friends farm which upto now i have only tried three fields as the rest are all cropped up at the moment, he has about 14 fields that i can get on when he hasn't got any crops in them, the fields i have tried have had the odd coin on them but as is the norm they are full of buttons and shotgun caps.
However i have just acquired permission to detect on another farm which is further out of York which has just under 300 Acres of land but i have to wait a couple of weeks for the farmer to sort some fields out for me to detect on, i hope that this farm will give me some good finds in the future.

Andi

[Ian]

Andy
Great news on the new farm. I have applied to 10 local farms so far and got 2 replies back saying NO, and nothing from the others.
I am really struggling to find anywhere to detect as one f the most promising areas around me is S.S.S.I. due to the finds etc.

What a bummer.

Ian

[leepy]

Hello sorry iv not been on for a while been a bit busy but still been getting out an about with the detector will update my finds shortly .

Andi mucka i wish that i had seen your post on the 250 lovin coke as i was out with my pals about a wk ago an i got that sick of digging coke up i went an sat in the car for 2hrs id tried everything to knock it off my detector without any luck now i come bk here and you posted how to knock it off lol lol just my luck but a massive thankyou gose out to you fella tiz the second lot of sound advice you have gave me

ps we have got loads an loads of permission on farms not far from you ie Aberford, micklefield ,towton, wetherby, lincolnshire, hull, north ferriby most of these are are undetectored accoroding to the farmers and the only reason were alloud on them is because we go hunting on all these farms and have so for some years now so if ever you fancy a day out drop me a pm and im sure we could sort something out as a sort of thank you for your advice matey