) about the lack of gold. This morning I gave the area another hit and my first keeper was a small gold name brooch. It is hallmarked 9ct Birmingham but the date letter and the makers mark are damaged. It looks like it should date around 1880 to 1910, which would be consistent with most of the coinage. Over a very cold hour I also found a silver religious medal, which I initially thought was a sixpence run over by a tram, and a few more coppers .
Apparently the fill was dig out from the middle of the beach earlier in the year and a couple of the local detectorists have been pulling silver and copper out of there on and off ever since.
I then hit another beach and got my petrol money. Part of the sand has been ruined by some idiot throwing hundreds of modern foreign coins onto the beach some time in the last day or two. I recovered 40 in about quarter of an hour, all very shiny and some of them even still on the top, and called it a day. I don't know if it is the same person but this has happened several times over the past three or four years on different local beaches.
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rl; But I am happy to detect on wet, cold and windy fields knee deep in mud, so I don’t even make sense to myself 
