Another go at local beach.

[janner53]

Popped over to our local beach again this morning hoping the sand is still off. What greeted me was a huge ridge of seaweed all on top of the beach. The sand was still off the top of the beach but the seaweed made it difficult to detect. Mind you, I could see that the sand is slowly creeping back up as places uncovered last week are now covered again. But in amongst it all I did find a couple of clear low spots and this is where i found 80% of the coins.

All together I dug 47 coins, mostly crusted decimal but amongst it were 6 pre-decimal pennies, a half penny and two thrupenny bits. Also found a junk copper ring and what looks like a lead round weight. Oh, and a tiny copper shield that looks as if it was a pin badge one time. Was a pleasurable 4 hours, just made it back to the car before the heavens opened up with rain and then hail.

[THE MOLE]

great haul there janner, hows ya back lol the velox is pulling out the stuff ok then. i found a small bag seal on sunday about 13mm across from 8" down, cant complain at that.

neil.

[Maximuswarks]

well done Janner you should've collected some seaweed and made soup with it

[STIG]

Shield appears to have the Masonic ' All Seeing Eye ' !!! . .

[janner53]

Cheers all .

Yup Mole, I love the way the Velox picks up the tiniest of objects .

Many thanks for the info on the shield, I can see its an eye now .

[Fishermansam]

Looks like another good day had by you Dave, and some nice finds, well done mate
That round thing could be a trade weight?


Sam

[STIG]

Cheers all .

Yup Mole, I love the way the Velox picks up the tiniest of objects .

Many thanks for the info on the shield, I can see its an eye now .

Could the shield not possibly be Gold !, maybe been a Stick Pin at one time ! . .

[janner53]

Cheers Sam .

Certainly looks copper backed to me, I could put up a photo later of the back as I have to go to work for a couple of hours now, will do it when I get home.

[Tomo]

Looks like plenty of digging was going on

[janner53]

Thanks all for the help on this shield. Here is the back of it, as i say, its copper coloured and just plain.

[silverwood]

Looks pretty old and handmade that shield.

[janner53]

Would be nice if it was old Silverwood .

I've just returned from another 4 hour session on this beach before the sand starts to build up again, which it is, I can see the difference already. Was expecting better finds but as its a tiny beach and the local detectorists have been pounding it for years and years they have left the scraggy ends for me. But as we know, the beach is ever changing and we can't get it all. I did manage another junk ring and 23 coins, decimal and predecimal, all in a bad state.

Just to show you how fast the sand comes back I have put a series of 3 photos below of our local beach taken on different days from the same spot.


Beach stripped on the 4th January.


Taken yesterday the 13th January.


Taken today the 14th January.

[THE MOLE]

still a good amount of finds there mate, keep at it something good will turn up.
as you say beaches change all the time

neil.