Climping Beach - Dead stick?

[jroberts570]

Good Morning all,

First post here, would like to say a big thank you to everyone who shares information on here, it makes a great late night read and has helped me massively as I have only just got into the Hobby seriously.

I have been out to Climping (Inbetween Littlehampton and Bognor) as my research uncovered that prior to the D-Day landings in Normandy, Operation Fabius (Exercise Fabius) was carried out on Climping Beach. There was 5 Fabius operations and I believe climping was Fabius 4,

MY ISSUE: I have parked in climping beach carpark and scanned west along 11 beaches, I am pulling up bits and pieces but nothing from WW2, I have read that people go to climping and find 303's I just find chunks of metal, possibly from the sea defences or even worse the more recent flood defences. I have found several washers that may of been from the barb wire post joints but again only guessing.

Does ANYONE know anything about the beaches there, or has anyone had any luck on this beach ? Its only my second time out and not sure if I should be looking in the sand on up towards the sea defences where the stones are ?

Any advise would be fantastic.

Look foward to hearing from you all soon

Jason

[lewscope79]

Not been there for a while but have found ww2 bullets and brass. Also older big lead bullets as there is a Napoleonic fort near the mouth of the Arun at Littlehampton.Tough beach though. Its like digging in builders rubble because of the big lumps of chalk etc.Good history though as it was once Celtic land

[fred]

Just so happens that I cut my detecting teeth on the beach between Climping and Littlehampton although I was mostly looking for gold rings and gold staters. When I first went there there were still army helmets rusting away on the hardpack. I used to find carrier bags full of 20mm cannon casings in good condition and more .303 and 9mm cases and heads than I could carry. I rather suspect that finds have thinned out somewhat since then so timing may be even more important to say nothing of a detector capable of punching deep and dealing properly with iron.

It only works properly for older stuff when the sand is freshly gone, which is often most obvious in deepest winter. The sand does not go evenly across the beach but in areas. Close in look for patches of stones and large rusting scaffold poles. The WW2 finds are near and amongst them. I also had good luck further out at the spring low tides finding American silver coins and medals as well as prodigious quantities of ammunition.

Best of luck

[jroberts570]

Just so happens that I cut my detecting teeth on the beach between Climping and Littlehampton although I was mostly looking for gold rings and gold staters. When I first went there there were still army helmets rusting away on the hardpack. I used to find carrier bags full of 20mm cannon casings in good condition and more .303 and 9mm cases and heads than I could carry. I rather suspect that finds have thinned out somewhat since then so timing may be even more important to say nothing of a detector capable of punching deep and dealing properly with iron.

It only works properly for older stuff when the sand is freshly gone, which is often most obvious in deepest winter. The sand does not go evenly across the beach but in areas. Close in look for patches of stones and large rusting scaffold poles. The WW2 finds are near and amongst them. I also had good luck further out at the spring low tides finding American silver coins and medals as well as prodigious quantities of ammunition.

Best of luck

Thanks allot for your advice, Thats certainly interesting,If you park at climping beach carpark go to the beach.. Do i turn left or right ? I still to this day dont really know what beaches the training took place ?

[lewscope79]

Left or right will find You stuff Jason,A good deal of the iron rubbish is wartime dated so if You find this dont be put off as it means Your in the right area.I found the musket balls and lead bullets will be nearer to the fort.