Ever had one of those days?.

[zxadi]

Well sun was up so off ta beach i went . 4 hours and not alot ?. 7p in new money ,2 very worn pennys & a coin with four leaf clovers on ( both sides ) aint a clue on that one ,no other marks etc. my question is its a very busy beach , but nothing much has come off it ?. must be nearly 30 hours on the stuff for not much reward or finds. can some beachs be like this ????. cheers adi.

[hihosilver]

Sounds like either the beach is cleaned by a machine every week or so, or you have shown up on a day when lots of loose sand has been deposited and you are only getting recent drops. With the more busy popular beaches I think quite a few are done with a machine to 'clean' the sand of junk nowadays. I assume it's just the dry sand you are doing with your 250.

[Blackadder43]

Beaches are fickle places....You need to become a tide and wind watcher...
Full moons, high tides and decent winds can and will shift hundreds of tonnes of sand around...
Dedicated beach detectorists find themselves some sort of permanent feature or marker to give them an indication of how much sand has been moved and where
Its possible you have hit the beach when the sand has been deposited on the area you are detecting....

[zxadi]

it changes from day to day ,can tell by the way sand is moved into high place and san removed too reveal rock etc underneath. maybe just hit it on a bad day .lol. think will leave this one for awile. its not cleaned by machine as no way of getting it onto beach and groynes are very close together.

[Tombs]

yep no shortage of them days lol

[Blackadder43]

I read somewhere many moons ago that if your beach has groynes on it then you should search on the side of the groyne that is away from the current (if you understand what i mean)
Taking our beach as an example the tidal waves push everything to the south as you look out to sea, so searching the south side of the groynes can give good finds
The thinking behind it is the tide and waves pick up the sand (and hopefully items we search for) and push them towards the groynes, once they hit the groynes the power of the tide is diminished and makes an area of "slack ish" water on the opposite side of the groynes, where the finds we look for can drop and sink until they hit the hardpack on the beach....

Don't know how much truth is in this as i am not a beach detectorist.....

[zxadi]

I read somewhere many moons ago that if your beach has groynes on it then you should search on the side of the groyne that is away from the current (if you understand what i mean)
Taking our beach as an example the tidal waves push everything to the south as you look out to sea, so searching the south side of the groynes can give good finds
The thinking behind it is the tide and waves pick up the sand (and hopefully items we search for) and push them towards the groynes, once they hit the groynes the power of the tide is diminished and makes an area of "slack ish" water on the opposite side of the groynes, where the finds we look for can drop and sink until they hit the hardpack on the beach....

Don't know how much truth is in this as i am not a beach detectorist.....

ummmmmmm thanks for that worth a try