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Eh,.... all see those silver coins... many many many....
And i feel really luck to find 1-2 :-(

on the other hand - i have all the beaches for myself :-)

But silver coins are nice... especially 925 UK ones...

Keep those targets coming! :-)

I went to Waltham Park last night and joined by the ever keen poohbear, (geez if its not water everywhere its blimmin fog! Man it was foggy last night!)
Anyway I recommend NOT going to that park! (its not like it was full of GOLD and silver and Im keeping it secret, alas its the worst park ive hunted at-trash everywhere as well as deep junk metal, false signals detector chirping off so much it was nearly impossible lol. Only things of note were a 1912 H'penny and a 1922 penny) Oh and a 5 baht coin..

BUT after getting fed up there I led us to a park that gave up 3 silvers for me and some for PB as well so that made up for a hard cold wet night!
Looking forward to a nice day Sunday for a daytime swing around ooo yeah!

Sounds like a good place to go with my 4 inch coil!

I love your enthusiasm Mike!!
Yea , maybe thats what needs to be done there-maybe I should throw on my 5" (I must be too lazy about changing coils-never even thought about the small coil lol)and we'll go give it a bash. I think patience is the key!

Have had a great couple of nights last two.

Last night visited little Hagley with hunter, ash and poohbear. I wasn't expecting to find Anything really with it being quite explored, however it gave up a couple of treasures for me.
Best find I'd what i guess is a WWII era toy...a very cool metal spitfire fighter plane. I think it's brass or something?
Also scored three silvers incl a uk 3d and a few musket balls.

Tonight I hit a part of Hagley with hunter and uncovered two silvers including a beaut 1846 sixpence.
Another cool find is a 1858 Australian 'peace & plenty' token minted by heaton.
Oh and a cool lead bullet head. One of those big ones with a couple of grooves in it.
Probably won't be out again for nearly a couple weeks so great few nights to go into a break on!

Happy treasure huntin' guys n gals!

hey foiled again, I found a peace and plenty token in the last week or so too. Yours looks like the surface has survived well.

very cool bro. gotta luv those shiny gold rings a. hagleys definatly not hunted out yet!!

Great finds mate......yep, the old girl still has plenty of treasure yet to be found. She's a jewel alright.

Firstly, I've never even considered the idea of detecting INSIDE the Botanic Gardens. That's one of those "No go" area's as far as I'm concerned and believe that it should remain the case for us all.
What we do in and around Hagley with our chosen hobby, is a privilege and NOT a right. None of us can afford to lose sight of this fact or take anything for granted.
We all need to take responsibility for our actions, as one person could potentially ruin it for us all. Myself and those new to this addictive hobby, have the most to lose from the aforementioned offensive and irresponsible behavior. All those who use Hagley must keep vigilant to this kind of anti-social behavior and if we see this crap happening, we need to flush out those responsible and enforce some kind of internal detectorist discipline to them!

....just my opinion......

Coincidentally, I happened to be talking to the head sports ground-keeper at Hagley the other day. He was saying that he often speaks to us dectorists and has nothing but praise for the way we generally conduct our activities..........as long as we stick to the tree-lines and don't invade the playing fields, he's happy.

hi ,its possible that kids look in the holes and dont bother to refill after they see us detecting,ive seen it,roy