Snettisham Beach anyone ?

[andyman101]

Ok me and Smaug have been beach detecting on the east coast for the last few weeks, Skegvegas,Hunstanton & Cleethorpes. So far not a lot of luck, still great fun, good exercise and fresh air etc, we are lust looking at the next possible beach and Snettisham has appeared on our Radar. Bearing in mind we are both in South Leicestershire so all the above mentioned are 100 mile odd each way my questions are;
1) Has anyone detected on Snettisham Beach ? if so are there any particular areas in general that were productive ?
2) Were any of the neighbouring beaches any good or better ?

Thanks in advance

Andy & Smaug.

[Koala]

I done the next beach along. Only been once for a couple of hours last summer.

Heacham

Did find an area full of 50 cal fragments and bullets. Also one 50 cal cartridge case Milwalki 1942 not much else but like I said only there for a few hours.


Big cafe to the right of the holiday homes about 250 yards to the left of it.

[RRPG]

You need to be careful on Snettisham beach.

Directly behind the beach, between the car park and the dyke was a WW2 air gunnery training area. The site had two, (some say three), very large firing butts. At the end nearest the road you will find concrete plinths, on which they mounted 50cal machine guns. Around the site ran a little railway. They would mount a mock up of a German aircraft on the little train then drag it, at speed, around the butts so the trainees could blast away at it with their machine guns.

As a result, the beach and area behind the beach is littered with thousands and thousands of 50calibre bullets. 90% of them are blue-tipped incendiaries which are not only illegal to possess, but also dangerous. Many of these can also be found on the beach itself but, due to the action of the sand and sea, the blue tips have been rubbed off. This makes it even more dangerous!

If you do go, be prepared to find a LOT of these bullets. Any with a blue tip or, a double cannelure (the grooves around the bullet), are incendiary, dangerous AND illegal to possess.

Otherwise, have fun

RRPG

[jcmaloney]

^^^^^ sounds like a laugh !! ......not.

Think I`ll stick to fields...much safer.

[andyman101]

You need to be careful on Snettisham beach.

Directly behind the beach, between the car park and the dyke was a WW2 air gunnery training area. The site had two, (some say three), very large firing butts. At the end nearest the road you will find concrete plinths, on which they mounted 50cal machine guns. Around the site ran a little railway. They would mount a mock up of a German aircraft on the little train then drag it, at speed, around the butts so the trainees could blast away at it with their machine guns.

As a result, the beach and area behind the beach is littered with thousands and thousands of 50calibre bullets. 90% of them are blue-tipped incendiaries which are not only illegal to possess, but also dangerous. Many of these can also be found on the beach itself but, due to the action of the sand and sea, the blue tips have been rubbed off. This makes it even more dangerous!

If you do go, be prepared to find a LOT of these bullets. Any with a blue tip or, a double cannelure (the grooves around the bullet), are incendiary, dangerous AND illegal to possess.

Otherwise, have fun

RRPG

Hmm Sounds like a minefield, literally, maybe need to look elsewhere,
Thanks for the information is there anywhere else locally you would recomend ?
Andy

[RRPG]

Not from that neck of the woods I'm afraid. I just know the WW2 sites due to my passion for digging WW2 relics Most of the north Norfolk coast was used as some form of range or training area so you need advice from someone local.

[Jupiter]

You need to be careful on Snettisham beach.

Directly behind the beach, between the car park and the dyke was a WW2 air gunnery training area. The site had two, (some say three), very large firing butts. At the end nearest the road you will find concrete plinths, on which they mounted 50cal machine guns. Around the site ran a little railway. They would mount a mock up of a German aircraft on the little train then drag it, at speed, around the butts so the trainees could blast away at it with their machine guns.

As a result, the beach and area behind the beach is littered with thousands and thousands of 50calibre bullets. 90% of them are blue-tipped incendiaries which are not only illegal to possess, but also dangerous. Many of these can also be found on the beach itself but, due to the action of the sand and sea, the blue tips have been rubbed off. This makes it even more dangerous!

If you do go, be prepared to find a LOT of these bullets. Any with a blue tip or, a double cannelure (the grooves around the bullet), are incendiary, dangerous AND illegal to possess.

Otherwise, have fun

RRPG

So why are those bullets illegal to own? I mean if they have been used and just laying in the ground surly if its illegal to find and collect them, the area would be off limits to the public.
I just want to know why.

[RRPG]

The simple answer is, they are covered by the law governing the possession of firearms and ammunition.

The following link takes you to a thread about this very subject, written to answer this very question.

http://www.metaldetectingforum.co.uk/vi ... 61&t=52771


RRPG