I was at a beach today that I have been to before and it always throws up a fair bit of decimal and the assortment of "usual" nonsense, you know batteries, bits of copper, odds and ends basically.
Well I went today and it was quiter than usual and I only found a £1 coin and a 50p peice. I was sure that the beach has been cleared out but I was finding the same amount of ring pulls and "melted can particles" that I usually find and this led me to believe it hadn't??
Could it be that I just had an off day (I was only there an hour).
Or had someone been there and notched out the aluminium? If so I guess it's worth going back as they will have missed any gold and other things in the middle range. Yet I didn't find anything apart from those two coins.
Strange one...
How to tell if a beach has "been done"?
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I went to a beach the other day and only found old stuff?
No new coins just 303 shells and a couple of old pennys.
Other times always gave me money to spend in the shop on the way home
The beach is a strange place..........................
No new coins just 303 shells and a couple of old pennys.
Other times always gave me money to spend in the shop on the way home
The beach is a strange place..........................
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onlyonegazza
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if someone has detected our local beach ,then there seems to be only loads of half pennies and twenty pences left, is that the same with you lot ?
it might seem the beach is the same height but it can throw a few feet of sand on the beach without you realising it thus making any previous coins out of reach.
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I think it could be this, the last few "hurricanes" have definitely change the look of the beach.Tomo wrote:it might seem the beach is the same height but it can throw a few feet of sand on the beach without you realising it thus making any previous coins out of reach.
Strange I was getting same no. of pull tabs though.
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A beach has never been done, it changes every 8hrs with the tide .. its an impossible thing to do a beach. 
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Tomo wrote:well putdoglikesparky wrote:A beach has never been done, it changes every 8hrs with the tide .. its an impossible thing to do a beach.
This beach doesn't have a tide
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Similar thing occurred on a rally awhile back went to a rally usual stories hardly been detected on near old roman site ect ect,while their was roman coins apearing there was no george or vic pennies ? which I think strange bearing in mind the size of these coins,later we met a local guy who told us that the site had been done to death over the years by nighthawks and clubs!Beany_bot wrote:I was at a beach today that I have been to before and it always throws up a fair bit of decimal and the assortment of "usual" nonsense, you know batteries, bits of copper, odds and ends basically.
Well I went today and it was quiter than usual and I only found a £1 coin and a 50p peice. I was sure that the beach has been cleared out but I was finding the same amount of ring pulls and "melted can particles" that I usually find and this led me to believe it hadn't??
Could it be that I just had an off day (I was only there an hour).
Or had someone been there and notched out the aluminium? If so I guess it's worth going back as they will have missed any gold and other things in the middle range. Yet I didn't find anything apart from those two coins.
Strange one...
Which i supose the big old coins had been found over the years and the tiny coins are now turning up due to better quality machines ,What do you think?
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i have this theory that the plough turns over the ground in layers. 1 foot plough might bring George an Victorian coins and 2 and 3 foot plough brings up earlier but always in layers. One season can be mainly medievil and the following year Roman but always in layers still with the medievil getting ploughed back in deeper.scratch0060 wrote:Similar thing occurred on a rally awhile back went to a rally usual stories hardly been detected on near old roman site ect ect,while their was roman coins apearing there was no george or vic pennies ? which I think strange bearing in mind the size of these coins,later we met a local guy who told us that the site had been done to death over the years by nighthawks and clubs!Beany_bot wrote:I was at a beach today that I have been to before and it always throws up a fair bit of decimal and the assortment of "usual" nonsense, you know batteries, bits of copper, odds and ends basically.
Well I went today and it was quiter than usual and I only found a £1 coin and a 50p peice. I was sure that the beach has been cleared out but I was finding the same amount of ring pulls and "melted can particles" that I usually find and this led me to believe it hadn't??
Could it be that I just had an off day (I was only there an hour).
Or had someone been there and notched out the aluminium? If so I guess it's worth going back as they will have missed any gold and other things in the middle range. Yet I didn't find anything apart from those two coins.
Strange one...
Which i supose the big old coins had been found over the years and the tiny coins are now turning up due to better quality machines ,What do you think?
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