what do you do in winter

[The Fox]

hi , I can only detect beaches (farmers fields around here are not available ) as this is my first year detecting,and the summer is almost over, what do other beach detectorists do in the winter months?.Do you go out on the beach regular ?, is there anything to find?,or do you only go out after rough weather has churned the sand up .Any advice would be helpful. Thanks

[beachman]

Hi Fox only go out after rough seas and hope the wind as strip the beach of sand you never no what you might find.

[timesearch]

Winter is a often better than Summer on the beaches,as was said in the last post. I swapped detectors with someone in Bude or Bideford a few years ago and when I went to his house he had a display cabinet full of rings found on the local beaches after storms. Unfortunately I live as far from the sea as it's possible to get in Britain, so only get to beach detect in the Summer

[Maximuswarks]

I am lucky that i have got over 2000 acres that i can only detect from September to March so this is my goal for the winter And i hope the finds will be as good as they were on this permission last winter

[Egral]

Freeze my thingies off

[oldartefact]

farmers fields are always available ... but not if you just do cold calling, send letters, and do telephone calls... Approach the farmer with the right tactics and doors will open... but ask for something for nothing .... then its a tough one.

[lord lovell]

as said get the gold of the beaches best time is winter

[Gwawrer]

I have seen more gold and silver than a jewellers window all found on North Wales beaches. So get out there when you can.

[coal digger]

During the winter season i like to catch up with my embroidery and cross stitch focusing on floral designs over a rural backdrop,cd

[Dave The Slave]

Hi Fox, last year was my first back into detecting, I also only do the dry sand beach due to the detector I have, Bounty Hunter Tracker IV. Last year I packed in at the end of September once the tourists had gone and the finds were less than a pound.
Started in June this year, still on the dry sand and have been out at least twice as many times. The finds have been a lot more as I understand the detector a lot better, still only coins but the objective is to get enough to buy the Garrett Ace 250, I am well on the way to that. This year once September has gone will be going onto the wet sand with a C.Scope CS4PI I bought earlier in the year to find more hopefully pre decimal and more decimal.
Once I have got the Ace 250 will try to get somewhere inland as I would really like to find historical items but would still also do the beach for a cash flow.
Cheers,
Dave

[The Fox]

Thank you all for the input,also to Dave if he is going to use the Cs4pi to get his diggen head on lol

[SheffieldSparky]

Hi The Fox personally I'd say that winter time is often a better time to detect on dry land than the summertime is and not wanting to start a war here in my mind detecting a farmers field is always going to be more desirable than detecting on a beach because sure you can find gold and silver rings on the beach and the odd pound coin or two which is good for paying the parking meter but if you wanted to search for real history like hammered or Roman coins then the beach might NOT be your first choice that said......I have heard on occasions.....very rare occasions about people finding such coins on the beach but generally speaking such coins are more likely to come out of a farmers field rather than the local beach so if I were in your boots, I'd start chapping some doors round about now and see if anyone will give you a chance to detect on their land this coming winter

wish you all the best of luck mate...


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Glen B-)

Hi Glen, In the main I agree with all you say but now and then depending on the areas history the odd goody does come up as you say. 2nd Cent headstud brooch from Scarborough beach last year.

[lord lovell]

detect detect detect

[SheffieldSparky]

detect detect detect

Never a truer word said and then do a bit more detecting

[lord lovell]

very true winter is a hammered hunt so detect detect detect