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[lord lovell]

i remember someone coming up to me and a mate and saying you should try down there you could find some decimal coins would be better than finding nothing when i said we had found around 500 roman you should have seen there face

[silverwood]

Where are you detecting though, as where i go i don't see a soul your obviously in a public area there , i only ever get bothered when i go the beach.

My 2 council permissions are 2 areas of common land, so people walking their dogs etc are a regular thing. How I'd love the relative privacy of a farm permission.

Your lucky to get permissions from the council.
most if not all have a total blanket ban on detecting.
Leeds City council do anyway.

[Philthy Phil]

I don't usually have problems with folks when I'm detecting, there are a couple of public footpaths on my permissions & every so often they stop for a chinwag, Another farm has camping & caravanning & agan the campers are great however I was once accosted by 2 mounted members of the local hunt who had been storming across the fields.

They tried to tell me that my presence had caused them problems & as a result the hounds had got confused and lost the scent of their quarry.........I politely pointed out that I actually had permission to be on the land and that I was well aware that they didn't & they rode off snorting.

My comments were backed up soon after when they were chased off the farm by the landowner & his brother in a Landy & 2 ATV's.............who were none to pleased at them riding across the crops!

[killer140269]

Could not agree more on one of my farm permmisions in bolton lancashire a guy walking his dog came up to me and said you wont find nothing in the fields round here i have to go over to yorshire or down south to find anything decent ,well that day i came away with a 22 ct victorian wedding ring a 1846 full soveriegn an loads of viccy and george iii silver hhah a that showed him

[coal digger]

I used to get asked a lot of the usual questions but a well placed finger pointing at a sack full of coal draped over my left shoulder seemed to answer the questions,cd

[richierich]

I rarely get that....maybe its the 2 sticks up my nose and the underpants on my head

too funny!!

[Dave8472]

Straight up someone actually asked me once in a park if I was looking for mines He wasn't English, did make me wonder where he had come from

Dave

Best reply.....I`m looking for landmines so watch where you step....

[hydraglide]

I used to get asked a lot of the usual questions but a well placed finger pointing at a sack full of coal draped over my left shoulder seemed to answer the questions,cd

....have I missed something here ?

[oldartefact]

there are two approaches

.. avoid eye contact, pretend you are deaf, and tattoo the word "hate" across your or knuckles

OR

..... smile, say hello, and share you finds with anyone who shows interest...

the choice is yours ... Happy hunting