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« on: October 29, 2010, 07:25:15 am »
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Hi. I'm new too, but from W. Midlands. I've heard Norfolk is good for older finds, but you need to get onto ploughed land for that I'd guess.

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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 07:40:33 am »
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2010, 08:43:41 am »
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Welcome from Texas

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I split your post out and started a new thread so more people can welcome you.

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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2010, 09:07:59 am »
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I split your post out and started a new thread so more people can welcome you.


Thank you (and Sue) for the welcome. I got a bit confused when I came back to check the thread  Cheesy

I was wondering about detecting in the USA. To find older, more historical stuff, do you detect on phoughed fields too? I'm thinking how different the history is in the US. Am I right in thinking that prior to European settlers, the native populations didn't have metal?

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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2010, 10:05:14 am »
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Plowed (US spelling  Smiley) fields, to me, almost don't exist with the no-till farming practices today - annoying, as there are fields where arrowheads would be exposed if they'd plow. The US certainly doesn't have the aged finds that you lucky folks experience, but, 5,000 years ago or so, early natives used copper from the Great Lakes region. In your area, I'm almost convinced that anywhere you dig, you'd find relics of prior societies just layer upon layer- here, doing that, you'll just find rocks at most random spots.

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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2010, 11:11:34 am »
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I guess we are more fortunate here in that respect, but it's certainly not quite as easy as you think. A few years ago I was a member of a metal detecting club, and even though we were searching on ploughed/plowed ( Wink) fields, I didn't find that much. I've had more success searching the gardens of family members. When I was a teenager I build my own detector from a design in "Everyday Electronics" - a BFO type. I found various coins and lead toy figures. To me at the time, it was amazing. It still is I guess.

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I was exaggerating, a little, at my impression of how metal loaded the layers of soil are there. My oldest coin is an 1846 dime and odds are high that I'll find one older - I'm in the central US. What is your oldest find?

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« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2010, 12:58:46 pm »
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My oldest find I got on one of the metal detector club outings. It was a "Cartwheel Penny", but it was very worn and no details were visible - just a heavy, round disk. That sort of wear is not that unsual I was told, since it's made of soft copper. It was made in 1797 or 1798 - they were so unpopular they only were issued for two years.

But at the metal detecting club, one guy showed me a gold celtic stater he had found (which dates from a few years BC  Shocked), and another guy found a bronze axe head (so that's bronze age, which according to Wikipedia ended around 800BC  Shocked Shocked). I could only dream of things like that  :Smiley

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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2010, 01:28:57 pm »
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hi and welcome,norfolk is good but very near impossible to get permission on farms but the beaches are good,and will be trying north norfolk beaches after the winter storms bring s the cliffs down.need a good summer so all them loverly holdaymakers get on the beaches.

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