sweet spot on the beach

[onlyonegazza]

i went out detecting today on a place i hadn't tried on my local beach, it looked terible, rocks, stones, hard digging. anyway not a lot of signals so i ventured into a piece with football sized rocks on sand, my first signal, silver ring yeeeeeh, then loads of fishings weights.
the interesting thing though, when digging i noticed that around 7 inches down there is a black sand layer so hard you can hardly dig through it. all the finds had sunk through the sand and were found on this, i could push my hand down through the soft sand and feel the layer below. this place is going to be productive i'm possitive, maybee my first gold, i only seem to find silver rings, so we will see.
goes to show don't judge a beach by how it looks

[bob4567890]

nice find any pic's
i have had some nice find's in the rock's and the stinky black sand
atb rob

[topcat]

get back to that spot before the sand covers it , i found a spot like that on Margate beach and had 5 gold rings in 1 hour with a c scope 770d but could never get back to that spot again so get back to it and good luck

[Christoph1945]

Where did you say it was Gazza?

Chris

[onlyonegazza]

cheers fellas, i havn't taken any photo's yet, i'll post as soon as can tomorrow. the finds ain't that special but a finds a find and it keeps me happy
for some reason gold is eluding me, iv'e found quite a few silvers but not a single bit of gold, maybee i just aint walked over it
i only found the spot at the end of the day, so i'll try and get back there this weekend and have another longer search.
the sand was so soft underneath the rocks, every time i took a scoop out it filled right back in and i had to use the pinpointer and feel around with my hand.
it's hard to believe, but when my hand went down onto the hardpack it was as flat as a pooltable underneath!
the old minelab sovreign worked well as usual.

[onlyonegazza]

i have taken the pictures fellas but i cant cut and paste them on here!
what am i doing wrong?

[bob4567890]

i have taken the pictures fellas but i cant cut and paste them on here!
what am i doing wrong?

hello try this link its free just upload you pic and then just push the copy to clipBord button and then paste the link in your post

http://www.postimage.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[deanodigger]

the black sand layers are made up from rotted sand.if a rock that is covered in sea weed is turned over,and not put back,the weed attached to the rock dies and rotts underneath.so if you dig round a rock you often dig smelly black sand.
this also can happens on beaches when a storm had washed up lots of weed,and the weed is not cleared up.thats why you see tractors clearing beaches of it, on popular holiday beaches.

[onlyonegazza]

i have the images in photo bucket but i cant get them to here!
i know i'm a numpty, but how do i get them to here

[smooow]

go to photobucket. click on the ablum were the pictures are. then under the pics in a box is share button, click this box comes up with lots of options clic in the box direct img link. and copy everything in that box "control c " then come here write post then click IMG box in gray at top, then hit "control v" to paste. that will put it right in the image tags. hope this helps

[onlyonegazza]

i hope this works, it's a computer sais no day
the top is what i found on the sweet spot that day.
the middle is the total over the last few trips, £22 a silver ring, silver spoon and some other bits and bobs, plus the dreaded trash!
the bottom should be bits of shell, fishing weights, and various stuff inc buttons and god knows what.
i think iv'e got there in the end and thanks to all for the advice.

[former member]

Only a matter of time before you see the yellow stuff

[RRPG]

You appear to have a few chunks of artillery shell and possibly some grenade nuts but I can't see them properly. You also look like you might have the tops from American 60mm mortar rounds.

Don't worry, everything appears quite safe, but I would like to see pictures of the round chunky bits and bits that look like parts of cones.

[Christoph1945]

WOW! Looks like you put a lot of spadework in.

Chris

[FERN]

well done m8 alot of digging there, you will find the GOLD soon at that rate