Personal health problems have also slowed me down somewhat but I recently decided to give Talacre an other try. Popping the Nel Big coil on the Safari and girding on a home made bungee thay nicely allowed the coil to float efertlessly over the sand, I returned to a couple of areas bassed on past finds. I also changed my search patterns and operated a westerly zig-zag pattern paralel to the sea and upon recovering one coin then worked outwards in a spiral pattern. Of course there were plenty of copper fifty cal jackets to fool both me and the Safari into thinking that they were coins!
I eventually bagged a dozen coins, none of which were recent drops and discovered a nice area of muddy black sand that yealded two Georgian coins that looked cleaner than the day they were lost. Once bagged, the two coppers lost their nice clean copper look and have continued to darken ever since.
So there are still some finds to be made in between the mountains of WWII scrap!
