Month: January 2015

I went again today where my dad lived. There are 3 social housing appartment buildings and some areas of grass in between. You can see bike tracks going from one side to the other over the grass, so that’s apparently where people take shortcuts. I found over 13 euro in 2 times 🙂 Wasn’t really succesful at first but 2x 2 euro coin speeds it up 🙂

It started raining several times but the ski-jacket doesn’t let anything through. Still I can’t go for longer than 3 hours because my neck starts to hurt. Plus I lost my screw driver in the field. I took another one from the garage that was longer and thinner but it broke. It was nice to have a longer one but i couldn’t lift up the grass because it was too thin. So now I realised that I might need TWO screwdrivers. The long thin one to pierce through the grass to find the object, and a shorter thicker one to open up the grass.

I’m not planning to go detecting on fields anymore, since I’ve tried it for several years without much success. I mean I LIVE on a former Roman city and I heard stories about how people went detecting decades ago and found plenty. And now still herds of detectorists come from even across the border to search here for Roman stuff. When I come, there is nothing left of course.

I had a meeting with a guy who wanted to try my fisher F70 before buying it. So we went onto a field and searched for 3 hours. I realized again how tough the field work is.. Big heavy shovel, feet all in mud, cold wind around your head. Not so many beeps with my XP deus; I got a bit worried because the routine was: getting a decent beep and then putting my shovel about 10cm deep to get the item out. Doesn’t a Deus go deeper normally ?
But ok, I found a lot of cool things in comparison to earlier digs. My day is great whenever I find silver

The guy found 6 coins which were not so great but ok, the detector proved to be a vacuumcleaner whereas mine proved I need to work on settings or on my pickiness/laziness for tones.

Went also to the city park when darkness was almost falling; The city workers have taken out a piece of grassland where the former swimming pool used to be and a pile of mud is now spread over the grass. I thought it would be perfect to search it but after 20 minutes I ended up with frozen fingers and 4 coins of our older currency The park opposite to the grass spot is still very promising, since I went there for a test and found 10 coins in 40 minutes. I didn’t write about it yet because I wanted to have at least 2 hrs of digging there.. but didn’t get there yet because of freezing cold !