not enjoying the beach

[uklad]

been to my local beach 5 times over the last week useing my garrett ace 150 i av tried all different parts of the beach and not been having much luck:( just seems like my local beach is full of junk or rocks with iron in so not the best place to be searching
im going to do my best to get some permisson on land as i think its alot better then the beach for searching and most the time its were u get all the good history finds i just feel after detcting for hours at a time covering all differnt areas of the beach that maby my luck just int in as a detector:( or might just be that the beach is not the best place for me

[the barnacle]

the beach can be a very destroying place, it can knock you back if its bad, i agree perhaps get a few farms then do the beach in the winter months when a storm hits, with you living local you can keep an eye on the sand levels, and maybe get a dedicated beach machine,

[Dave8472]

Some great advice from "the barnacle" there, I can add no more

Dave

[Steve1080123]

I agree beach detecting cant compete with land and i have one of the better machines for beach detecting for me digging up modern coinage and even a modern gold ring i found this week dont compare with a roman or medieval find be it grot or good its just a much better buzz for me get on some land and you may find like me beach just aint your thing

[uklad]

thanks for ur replies barnacle dave & Steve

yer thats true barnacle it as knocked me back abit over the last couple days on the beach i guess u dnt no till ur try urself and now i think am ready to go onto the land just getting permisson is a pain lol i will still take the odd trips to the beach after storm hit like u say and while i have no permission


thats so true dave am not interested in modern coinage and even rings i would love to find some old finds like roman or medieval i think ur right as av been on some land once befor and also just the testing of my machine in the garden was alot fun lol i dnt think the beach is my thing..my oldest find to date was a half pence 1943 coin and that was from my garden and i was so happy to find that!!

[Gwawrer]

I recently went to Treasure Chest an Exhibition at Chester Town hall of md finds and club finds and there was one display as good as a second hand or antique jewelers window full of beach finds all from one guy and wow I was amazed at the amount of good quality old gold and silver jewelery really hundreds of finds. It was one of the other guys that was manning the next dispaly that told me that the display were nearly all beach finds. ps i don't know which beaches or what machine he uses. I was hoping beaches local to me.

[uklad]

hiya Gwawrer:) now that sounds like that sort beach i would love to be searching on lol mine seems like its just full of old iron bits am sure there will be some gd finds about just im not detecting in the right places maby i should give it more a chance and try new spots cos like u say that just proves there really is some good old finds on the beaches then its just a case of being in the right spot and also getting lucky... if u do find out its close to ur local beach let me no so i can pop up lol

[Tomo]

Get round the farms uklad. Your area's dripping in history, I've had some good finds from there.

[peanut]

don't dismiss other areas too.
First thing I would buy is an OS map of your area scale 1:25000 2.5" to a mile or better.

Search every inch of that map with a magnifying glass and ring in red felt tip everything of interest ie Roman villas, roman roads, sites of antiquity, medeival villages, castles , barrows, lychetts everything .

Then see if you can work out what was going on back in Saxon. Roman, Medieval times.

Get a feeling for the local landscape.Where did they live ? how did they buy and sell produce? where did they get their water ? where would they have grown their foods and grazed their cattle etc.

Don't forget local footpaths, droves,bridge sites, river paths, hilltops fair sites all the places people would have been 100's of years ago.

good luck

[uklad]

ite Tomo
i av tried a couple farms close to me but not had any luck yet i did ring them and i now av couple more to ask so after reading alot ppls comments think i should go see them in person as its gives me alot better chance of getting permisson that way

hi peanut
im not dismissing any other areas its just my local beach that as been driving me crazy lol i will defo look into getting a OS map of my area thank u so much for all the gr8 tips:) will come in handy and im sure will be alot of help for me as thats what i like about the hobby the fact u can find out so much about the history from were u live and also av the chance to find the items from the times which they used and ownd them 100s years ago

[paul71]

hi,sometimes i think its down to luck i spent 6hrs down the beach the other day all i got was a crusty 2p,my partner had a go and got £3.70 in a place i wouldnt have tried in a space of a few minutes.the good days will come eventually.

[uklad]

hi paul ur right its defo all to do with being in the right places and having luck on ur side i av found the odd pound and other moden coins but really want to find some think old with abit of history to it as thats what im into and like about the hobby so much

[onlyonegazza]

all i can say is dont give up on the beach everyone has bad days or weeks even ,have a break for a few days and have a rethink of where to look !
as the other fella's have said it only takes some rough weather to move the sand and bobs your uncle.
also a few weeks back the beach was full of people when i arived so i decided to try some shale at the high water line where no one was about, i found loads of old flash bulbs ,some victorian spoons, loads of old tin film canisters one of them was full of some greace ? then i thought to myself years ago they were taking pictures,also perhaps having a picknic and a drink here !
i know there was nothing valuable there but it didn't matter to me,i would never have looked there normally ,like i said earlier try something different you might suprise yourself !
good luck gazza

[uklad]

ite onlyonegazza thanks after all ur comments and having think about it im going to take ur advice and stick with the beach hunting for now in till i can get permission as u say everyone has bad days or weeks plus we av ad strong wind and forcest 80 miles ph tomoz so tuesday could be a gd day to go:) do u think its best to detect on the dry sand or on the water line where no one else is?? and the sand is much lower as av not been finding much on the dry sand

[Hauptmann aD]

Yesterday I had a chance to take over the role of the "beach brigand" again for 3 1/2 hours here in Germany.
Weather forecast told something about nice weather this Saturday. So I traveled to a small Baltic Sea island in East Germany together with my spouse to plunder a beach, which I never detected on before.

But after all this driving the first Euros got stolen already for parking, more for entering the beach.

I unpacked my detector and found myself very soon surrounded - by a bunch of curious children.
While they hunted me, I never found any coin - only bottle caps, jeans buttons and similar nice stuff. So the children horde was bored soon and went playing. This was the time for the first 60 Euro Cent.
What was that about good weather? Thick clouds came up, and a fine rain fell down. So much about weather forecast. Typical beach brigant weather - most people escaped, I had the beach almost for me alone (not too long).

After finding a while nothing, the coins came up. Final result:
24 Euro, 2,50 German Mark, 20 Pfennig from the DDR (old East Germany), 2 silver ear rings and one silver coated necklace pendant.

This made up for the traveling expenses. I would have searched longer than the time mentioned (visiting another beach), but there was a time reducing factor - the spouse

Best greetings from Germany
Olaf

P.S. Again struggled with the picture size rules - one tells me that the size should not be larger than 300 KiB, after changing this I get told, that the max size is 640 pix ... (Could you please show both rules in one message?)