Dorset Beaches any ideas ?

[andyman101]

Hi there off to Dorset 9th Feb for a few days detecting, Will be based at Corfe Mullen, I have already earmarked Hamworthy Beach and Turlin Moor to have a look at because of the strong Roman Connections and considering Chapmans Pool. Has Anyone got any suggestions ? Will be taking my Xterra 305 so if anyone has any special settings for beach then love to hear them

Thanks
Andyman

[Tomo]

Don't know the area but I'm sure someone will know

[ironage]

anyone...........?

[andyt]

I'm not a seasoned "detectorist" so would be interested to hear also!

But I was in the area early Jan and thought I would take the detector and have a little wander.

I went to Hamworthy as I know it from a child, found a couple of ring pulls and nothing else. Only an hour though. So perhaps a more thorough going over would find some things.
I then went to sandbanks, (which was full of people staring) and found...nothing at all. The sand was deep and a machine had been over it (as well as many local people with detectors I expect). I actually placed money on the ground several times to prove my detector worked!

Nice little walk though.

Swanage I found a few coins in Sep about £2! Though the other guys there found lots...so clearly a combination of being rubbish at it and having a land detector (MXTpro)! Odd though, you are supposed to get permission from the tourist information and in the summer months (inc when I was there) you could only go on after a certain time according to the tourist information agreement. But I noticed people coming on an hour before that to detect...and the signs actually said you could detect an hour before the tourist information agreement! Ive forgotten the hours, but in the winter I dont think they apply? Apparently the permission only goes up to where the main road forks (heading north), and the person in the TI answered every question with the minimum words, just saying that I needed to find out who owned that bit of the beach if I wanted to go further.
Also you could only get a permit from the TI office for the same day (or perhaps up to very early the next morning), so you had to get there early enough to catch the TI open then hang around...
But then I dont remember the signs by the beach saying anything about needing a permit and I wonder whether the other people detecting on the beach bothered? Who knows...

Chapmans pool I havnt been to, I seem to remember a long walk down? Maybe it just seemed a long walk as a child...last time I was there.

Durdle door has "no detecting" signs.

Bournemouth and Southbourne appear to be places people go.

Be interesting to hear how you get on!
Andy

[Bids]

Hi have been doing the Bournemouth beach stretch every Sunday for the last eight weeks or so. Been very hard work. I'm new to the hobby so not experienced at all. I'm not sure if it's the wrong time of the year ie need a summer of beach goers to restock the beach or if I'm doing it wrong, or maybe I'm expecting to much. I get a lot of coins but still yet waiting to find any real bling
Still it's great fun to get out.
Wish you the best of luck and look forward to seeing what you get

[andyman101]

Don't know the area but I'm sure someone will know

Hi thanks prompted some good info.

Andy

[andyman101]

I'm not a seasoned "detectorist" so would be interested to hear also!

But I was in the area early Jan and thought I would take the detector and have a little wander.

I went to Hamworthy as I know it from a child, found a couple of ring pulls and nothing else. Only an hour though. So perhaps a more thorough going over would find some things.
I then went to sandbanks, (which was full of people staring) and found...nothing at all. The sand was deep and a machine had been over it (as well as many local people with detectors I expect). I actually placed money on the ground several times to prove my detector worked!

Nice little walk though.

Swanage I found a few coins in Sep about £2! Though the other guys there found lots...so clearly a combination of being rubbish at it and having a land detector (MXTpro)! Odd though, you are supposed to get permission from the tourist information and in the summer months (inc when I was there) you could only go on after a certain time according to the tourist information agreement. But I noticed people coming on an hour before that to detect...and the signs actually said you could detect an hour before the tourist information agreement! Ive forgotten the hours, but in the winter I dont think they apply? Apparently the permission only goes up to where the main road forks (heading north), and the person in the TI answered every question with the minimum words, just saying that I needed to find out who owned that bit of the beach if I wanted to go further.
Also you could only get a permit from the TI office for the same day (or perhaps up to very early the next morning), so you had to get there early enough to catch the TI open then hang around...
But then I dont remember the signs by the beach saying anything about needing a permit and I wonder whether the other people detecting on the beach bothered? Who knows...

Chapmans pool I havnt been to, I seem to remember a long walk down? Maybe it just seemed a long walk as a child...last time I was there.

Durdle door has "no detecting" signs.

Bournemouth and Southbourne appear to be places people go.

Be interesting to hear how you get on!
Andy

Hi Andy,

Thanks for that,

I also have tried Sandbanks last September with similar results to yourself, although a local detectorist had just found a gold engagement ring as I started !.
Don't know about Hamworthy beach now, I think i will just do Turlin Moor up the road, there has been several Roman caches found there between 1830 and 1930. One of the reasons I was thinking about Chapmans Pool is that the area is notorious with Shipwrecks through history and I think I am right in saying that worst storm that most ships back in time fear while making there way past Dorset is the Strong South-Westerly Gale as being Sailing Ships they were be holding to the Wind. Chapmans Pool actually faces South-Westerly . Well that's my thinking. Just heard that Durdle Door is now inaccessible due to the steps being washed away this year, they are not going to be replaced. Kimmeridge Bay also looks good. I will be updating here when I return with (fingers crossed) finds, and a mini review of the sites I go.

Andy

[andyt]

Hi Andy

Yes the steps at Durdle door were out when I went there, Sept I think last year. You could climb/slide down the bank, was a bit slippy having been raining at the time. The steps went most of the way down...just the last fairly steep bit where they had collapsed.

You've inspired me to wander down to Chapmans pool next time I'm down! Probably without the detector though.

Andy

[andyman101]

[quote="andyt"]I'm not a seasoned "detectorist" so would be interested to hear also!

But I was in the area early Jan and thought I would take the detector and have a little wander.

Hi Andy,
Quick question, I want to be doing low tide between tide marks on the wet/ mud stuff, I have. Roughneck short spade,Garrett propointer,sand scoop and hand trowel what way would recommend to dig the targets ?
Thanks
Andy

[andyt]

Hi Andy

I'm not an expert, but I have read other people say how great a long handle scoop is in the wet.
I don't have one! I just use a mini spade, but my MXTPro is not that good in the wet anyway...and I dont want to get wet feet!
I do know that if you try to bend down and dig wet sand with a spade eventually you get to a point where the water is and the hole gets wider and not much deeper as the sides fold in...

I started off with a very small spade or trowel and pro-pointer. Then I worked out that its quicker just to use a bigger spade, leave the pro-pointer in my pocket, and just dig and keep checking the pile of sand with my detector. Once its in the pile I would move the pile about and re-check with the detector till I isolated it. Saved lots of kneeling and poking with the pro-pointer. Pro-pointers great through for soil where you do a little hole and sometimes find it in the side.

Watching the videos of people detecting on the beach with a long handled scoop it seems to be the thing to use in the wet. I may buy one one day!

Andy

[Stillburning]

Hi Andy,

I'm planning on going to Worth Matravers at the weekend and was going to stop off at Swanage but read on here about the restrictions on the times you can detect there and wondered if you got down to Chapmans Pool and if so how you got on.

I remember going back a few years there had been a container washed off a boat and there were loads of plastic lego like figures being washed up there, kids loved it!

[John and Dawn]

Rockley sands has a lot of old coinage and is quite a small area.
Well worth a go. Through the caravan park and park at the sailing club.

[Stillburning]

Thanks, that caravan park is added to my list of holiday destinations with nearby detecting potential!