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Garrett Z-Lynk Wireless System

Wireless headphones systems are definitely becoming more popular these days.

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Blackberries and Rare Bullets

Quite a few years ago now Treasure Hunting magazine asked me to field test a new C.Scope detector.

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The River Thames And Its Tributaries

When the Romans arrived in the region we now call Wiltshire the rivers Thames and Churn met at a spot where embanked gravels reduced the depth of water and provided an easy fording place.

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A Detectorist's Guide To Field Archaeology

This 10-part series aims to meet the needs of a typical newcomer to the hobby who has yet to join a local club and who requires some guidance on how to put his/her detector to productive use on sites that might offer a variety of finds from ancient to modern.

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A Stunning Medieval Gold Ring

It was just another Sunday and since I had nothing else planned I thought it would be rude not to have a few hours of detecting somewhere.

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Finding a Victoria Cross

I am a passionate detectorist and, despite living in London, still manage to go detecting three or maybe even five times a week.

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The Benington Hoard

Last year I started walking our dog Zeus out along the marshy areas where I live. As far as I know the area wasn’t a bombing range or anything of particular significance, but there were plenty of bits of old metal scattered about from previous times. Seeing what was lying about on the surface definitely got me rather more interested in what might lie just below it.

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How To Straighten Bent Silver Coins

It always makes me think when I see the huge ploughs, rotavators and other farm machinery ripping through the soil, “It is little wonder that the humble, usually thin, hammered silver coin suffers so many various injuries.”

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The River Thames and its Tributaries

Almost four decades have come and gone since archaeologist Raymond Selkirk put forward his innovative argument that the Romans in Britain (and elsewhere) made substantial use of rivers as part of their logistics when supplying front line legions. Scores of detectorists throughout northern England and southern Scotland helped Raymond with his research by detecting around potential riverside sites revealed by the aerial photographs he took when flying his light aircraft along the routes of the region’s rivers.

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A Very Successful Year

This is my first attempt at writing anything like this since the essays I used to write way back in my school days. I am therefore somewhat nervously putting this article together in the hope that it will be of interest to readers.

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Danish Bronze Age Vulstringe

I must confess that I’m not exactly sure what the Danish word Vulstringe translates to in English, so perhaps it is best I explain – Vulstringe are in fact large bronze rings from the Danish Bronze Age and it has been concluded that they were most probably used as ankle adornments.

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Field Test Minelab Equinox 800

For many months, the detecting scene has been buzzing about the arrival of an innovative new machine that promised to challenge most of the high-end detectors that currently dominate the scene. It seemed everyone was eager to hear more about the Minelab Equinox detectors, including myself.

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Our Spanish Treasure

Roy and I have been detecting together for a few years on a regular basis. We mainly go to the beaches and estuaries in south and west Wales, as we like the freedom, the scenery and the smell of the salt air.

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Thunderstorms and Sea Creatures

The first week away for my wife and I in 2016 was to Cala Bona on the lovely Spanish island of Majorca.

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Symbols Of Love

I went to a dig in Suffolk two years ago, quite early in the season as I recall.

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The XP HF Coil A Pasture Test

Recently many questions have been asked about the new HF coil from XP. One that regularly crops up in conversation is “How do the higher frequencies compare to the black coil running at 18kHz?” Taking everything into consideration, and to be perfectly honest, the answer is – I really don’t know.

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magic of the golden fly

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A Roman Hoard in West Cornwall

I had been looking forward to this particular Kernow Search and Recovery Club Sunday dig for some time, and at last it was the morning to get ready and set off. I packed up all the requirements for the day: sandwiches, a flask of coffee and my trusted Minelab Safari detector. I then set off fully charged with anticipation of what the day’s search might reveal. The weather was rather overcast, cold and somewhat windy, but when do such trivial inconveniences put off a determined detectorist?

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Hard Going

The year 2016 had me looking at the fields with the highest hopes I’d had since starting this wonderful hobby nearly 30 years ago.

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Roman Gold Day

My mobile went ‘ping’ as I lay motionless on the pillow that morning. I grabbed it and strained to read through bleary eyes the words “It’s raining here.

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Detecting Croatia

In April this year, my fiancée Jennie and I travelled to Vinkovci, in Croatia to take part in the CRO5 detecting rally.

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Searching Peaks And Dales

I was the last of three generations to farm our tiny 120 acre Peak District hill farm which nestled into the side of Wallcliff Hill 1200 feet above sea level. In fact, the tiny hamlet, of which it was a part, was filled with various family members including mum and dad, aunties and uncles and my brothers. 

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Joy and Inspiration

I would like to introduce myself as Michael Page or as most people know me in the metal detecting world as Michael Norfolk Digger.

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Any Old Iron

While looking at detecting Facebook sites and forums I’m always struck by the constant thread of disappointment in the digging of iron signals and posts on “How can I reject iron?” Have you ever stopped to think that some of those iron objects you are passing over might actually hold a great deal of archaeological and historical importance?

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XP MI-6 Pinpoint Probe Review

At a first glance the XP MI-6 looks like any normal pinpointer, it’s only when you start to dig deeper (pardon the pun) that you begin to realise that this is something rather special. The MI-6 should perhaps have been called the ‘007 probe’ as it is rather like something from James Bond’s box of tricks.

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Finds from Toddy's Digs Scotland

Well December 2016 came and went and finds-wise was certainly a month to remember for sure!

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Finding a Sassanian Dirham

It was a chilly early evening in January and Tobias Neto was preparing to go to the River Thames foreshore for some detecting. He takes up the story:-

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The Commonwealth Coinage (1649-60)

In 1649 Charles I was beheaded at Whitehall on charges of treason.

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Anglo-Saxon Treasure

The year 2016 was one that I will certainly remember. It was in early October when I finally got the call giving me the Lincolnshire permission I’d had been waiting for.

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Site Hunting Around the M25 -Surrey Section

Heading west from Merston the motorway carves through more of Surrey’s rural acres, running parallel to and just north of, the North Downs Way for several miles.