Arriving at the beach it was a lovely sunny day, no wind, no other folks about. Lovely.
About 90 minutes later I hadn't found didly, apart from random small bits of copper. Still was great just being out so decided to carry on. About 30 minutes later I came hit my first coin, a 1949 six pence. I then proceeded to dig out quite a few more coins in the same area of the beach. Weirdly they all dated from around 1940 to 1960. Nothing decimal at all. Still shouldn't be that surprised as this beach seems to be decimal up one end and then gradually gets older (oldest coin i've found there is 1870 something).
Happy with my little pre-decimal hoard I carried on when I got a lovely loud 'ding ding' two bars from the top of my euro-ace. I didn't need to dig as laying on the ground was what seems to be a gold signet ring. Bit of an odd one in that I don't know if it's solid or just gold plated. There isn't a hallmark and it's rather cruddy inside. Still have popped up a post on The Metal Detecting Forum so hopefully somebody will know more than I which when it comes to gold ain't hard.
I carried on for another hour so and found a pound coin and a 10 pence piece before deciding to head home. All in all a lovely 4 hours out.
Whilst I haven't done much beach detecting at all one thing I often find is that where you find one coin you will often find more close by so always have a good look around the hole.
Have a good new year all.
Ey up detectorbloke good to see you back!
ReplyDeleteWell done on the finds, it will be good to find out what that ring is once its cleaned up.
Im just about to set off detecting for the first time in a while also.
Andy
Happy New Year to you and yours Detectorbloke.
ReplyDeleteNot been able to get out myself over the Christmas as all I seemed to have been doing is running around, working and sleeping. Nice to see you got out and rewarded with a ring and some coins. The ring looks good, fingers crossed it is gold.
Thanks andy and janner. Hope u get some good stuff andy.
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