Metal Detecting

Hi, I have been using the deus for a few years now with a fair bit of success on both ploughed and pasture. I only have the deus lite so have really become accustomed to the tones, and always use the preset ground balance of 90 with 3 tones, but no other tweaks as I do not have the control box. For a good few months I have been on ploughed land and set my detector to program 3 , 17khz and am happy detecting like this. When on pasture I normally use program 2 and switch between 12 and 8 kHz and have had some really deep finds previously.

However today on new pasture, which has previously been ploughed some years back, I seem to be having problems with depth. Whilst I managed a Hammie, and a number of other coins and artefacts, I'm worried what else I am missing.

Most of my finds were in the first couple of inches, and once the hole had been dug, and the turf turned upside down, my detector wasn't picking the signal up very well and the signal and was turning "iffy". Almost scratchy or iron like.

Could there be a reason why this is happening on this land and not on other pasture I have been on.

I want to go back to this field as its near a Saxon burial, so I'm sure there will be some other goodies.

Whilst as you can see from the pic below there are plenty of finds made, I really want to be sure I am not missing the deeper targets. Whilst I know depth is not everything, i want to be getting deeper than an inch or two on this pasture and think many of the iffy iron like signals could indeed be good targets.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks
Dom

Could be just the fact there's not alot below the first few inches. I'd try burying a few coins you've found on the other pasture, at the depths you've found them at and see if it sees them.

look to be doing ok perhaps set the sensitivity a bit higher and run it on 18khz saying that someone hold me that they search all pasture in 4khz

Lower Khz is usually the best for deep pasture detecting,of course if nothing is at depth then you wont find it what ever freq you use.

If its been working for you before and it produced you some deep finds then gut feeling tells me nothing is deep,would not worry about it really and just keep on detecting the same as you have been doing before,if you are still finding stuff which you are but less depth then it should all be find.If it aint broke then dont try and fix it by altering all the settings.

It maybe worth having a duplicate programme that you normally use but just change the freq setting down to 4khz then save it in in a spare slot,so you can jut juggle between the 2 and see if it works better for you on pasture.

I'd also go with the gut feeling that there might not be anything there currently that's in range.
I've not done much pasture but have had some targets at 18" one was a Roman shield boss.
Mind you, Rob and I went for an hour-and-a-half before getting our first signal and that was on arable that usually produces several Roman coins!

Thanks for the responses. I'll try 4khz and see how that goes. Why do you think when I do get a signal that is near the surface, dig the turf and turn it over turn so the find is now slightly further away, that the signal goes iffy? Surely it should still be picking it up if I've only dug a shallow hole to begin with?

Thanks
Dom

Dommey wrote:Thanks for the responses. I'll try 4khz and see how that goes. Why do you think when I do get a signal that is near the surface, dig the turf and turn it over turn so the find is now slightly further away, that the signal goes iffy? Surely it should still be picking it up if I've only dug a shallow hole to begin with?

Thanks
Dom

Ive the same as you. Deus lite ws4', same settings apart disc 30 and full tones on factory 3

Sometimes it is a small thing gone from flat to on its side, I use a garret probe and between that and the deus I sometimes find it, normally really really small thing. Or fill the hole in and then re check and get a good signal after finding nothing. Then walk on to the next signal still thinking what if!

Me and my boy wrote:

Dommey wrote:Thanks for the responses. I'll try 4khz and see how that goes. Why do you think when I do get a signal that is near the surface, dig the turf and turn it over turn so the find is now slightly further away, that the signal goes iffy? Surely it should still be picking it up if I've only dug a shallow hole to begin with?

Thanks
Dom

Ive the same as you. Deus lite ws4', same settings apart disc 30 and full tones on factory 3

Sometimes it is a small thing gone from flat to on its side, I use a garret probe and between that and the deus I sometimes find it, normally really really small thing. Or fill the hole in and then re check and get a good signal after finding nothing. Then walk on to the next signal still thinking what if!

DISC at 30 your leaving the good gear in the ground

lord lovell wrote:

Me and my boy wrote:

Dommey wrote:Thanks for the responses. I'll try 4khz and see how that goes. Why do you think when I do get a signal that is near the surface, dig the turf and turn it over turn so the find is now slightly further away, that the signal goes iffy? Surely it should still be picking it up if I've only dug a shallow hole to begin with?

Thanks
Dom

Ive the same as you. Deus lite ws4', same settings apart disc 30 and full tones on factory 3

Sometimes it is a small thing gone from flat to on its side, I use a garret probe and between that and the deus I sometimes find it, normally really really small thing. Or fill the hole in and then re check and get a good signal after finding nothing. Then walk on to the next signal still thinking what if!

DISC at 30 your leaving the good gear in the ground

Thanks lord Lovell. Whats the best discrimination.

as low as you can get it but between 4 and upto 6.8 would be perfect

lord lovell wrote:as low as you can get it but between 4 and upto 6.8 would be perfect

Cheers LL

I meant to write disc 3 but as my ws4's say it as disc 30 I wrote as I see it. I normally do disc 3

Cheers again M+mb