Last month i got my new Technetics G2 and on last sunday went to a dig on a Roman villa site, i had heard that the site had been done by another club once in the past and thought maybe we would have a chance of finding some coins.
Anyway i started detecting and within a few minutes had a sestersius and a other bits and pieces ,
By the end of the day i had a total of 8 roman coins and a old key (not very old) and some lead.
I found that the detector is a little difficult to use on that type of site with all the iron and mineralisation but so was most of the other types, at most the coin finds were only coming up at between 3 and 6 inches.
The G2 a lot of the time would give a iron signal for a roman coin or even other good contacts so i just dug all.
I had the machine set at 2 o'clock sensitivity for depth and 35 discimination.
I think it is a good machine and i think would be even better on a medieval site for hammered coins, maybe in a couple of weeks i will be able to give a report on that.
I am planning to use it on a shingle beach in the next few weeks too where i think it would be good for coin shooting, though i doubt it would match the E.Trac or Sovereign or be any good in the salt water like them but thats not what i bought it for.
In my opinion its a good machine for the starter and as a backup or even as a main machine, it does have limitations i think but that will have to be studied a bit more.
Richard
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