Metal Detecting

targets wrote:As a mulark of 30 plus years there's so much junk down there your wasting your time unless you have the patience of job and strong earoles to cope with the noise...Eyes only would be better than a machine IMO...Deep diggers used to use a compass on the bottom material ...Which was out of range from modern junk

Incidentally the major finds were from the 70s and 80s and we're very deep .Way out of detector range ..

I entirely agree on the bits of foreshore where there is almost solid iron, for example rivets from barge breaking. However, on the patches of shingle, sand and clay a detector can be great fun to use. Modern detectors with a very quick recovery time and tone discrimination allow experienced user to do some interesting tricks. Just wish that they had been around 30 years or more ago!

Modern gold suit me

RR

targets wrote:As a mulark of 30 plus years there's so much junk down there your wasting your time unless you have the patience of job and strong earoles to cope with the noise...Eyes only would be better than a machine IMO...Deep diggers used to use a compass on the bottom material ...Which was out of range from modern junk

Incidentally the major finds were from the 70s and 80s and we're very deep .Way out of detector range ..

Some of them still does use compass but on the other hand for the last 30 40 years the foreshore has eroded up to 5 feet if not more..............plus traffic on the river with the clipper and other floating night club has increased creating a faster erosion than ever before.


RR

Back in the days when the forerunners to the mudlarks were busy digging deep holes there was another set of guys who used to crawl along the foreshore with kneepads on....Between London bridge and blacfriars bridge and they used to do alright as rumour has it...On the south side and never did the north side ...They used to find small denomination hammys of half quarter and pennys...So that's what i would do if I was doing that area which I don't now...

Rivers rat wrote:Modern gold suit me

RR

I'm not so fussy as you, I'll take ancient or modern!

targets wrote:Back in the days when the forerunners to the mudlarks were busy digging deep holes there was another set of guys who used to crawl along the foreshore with kneepads on....Between London bridge and blacfriars bridge and they used to do alright as rumour has it...On the south side and never did the north side ...They used to find small denomination hammys of half quarter and pennys...So that's what i would do if I was doing that area which I don't now...

That was my stomping ground from the 1970s through to 1987. Never found much hammered silver but plenty of Georgian, pub tokens relatively modern bits and the like. Was there a few times over the last couple of summers too and there was still some interesting stuff about.

If you want to take a look at a silver wine taster hallmarked 1634 from the Thames go to

http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And scroll down to 34 and then scroll to page 204...Found in 1978 by the late Tony of the ml and sold Christie's in 1978

I know you guys know what you're talking about.. but..
Why don't you consider a second hand AT pro.. You can really turn up the discrimination and if you use it without headphones totally waterproof and would only require a rinse in water to clean.
Not cheap as chips perhaps but certainly sturdy enough to reuse again and again.

Rivers rat wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:11 pm I tried a Lobo with a snake coil and it was very good too!
Maybe a Deeptech with a small coil isn't too expensive as well,my mate used a bounty hunter with a 4" coil he found stuff too,T2 and F75 with 5" coil aren't bad either



RR

Hi I’ve just come across this thread, I’ve just bought a laser rapier for the Thames foreshore. Any tips on smaller coils or handling tips?

Be aware that this thread was 5yrs old at the last entry. For tips/small coil suggestions have a look at Laser Tesoro Detectors Forum Cheers Eric