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Due to a bad dose of flu followed by a lingering chest infection, yesterday was the first time I managed to get out detecting this year. It was with a local FB detecting group and a real red letter outing with a range of finds from Roman (lots of Roman) through medieval to Tudor hammereds...

A couple of miles from where I live, there is a park where the teenagers gather of an evening and do what ever teenagers do. It a few of them have bought some green laser pointers as every so often, I can see one, two or three beams shining skyward after dark. I am not sure if these are legal...

Not sure if you guys have seen this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64429375 Not sure what it was being transported in, but I am sure it wasn't just in the drivers pocket!

I came across the short video below that demonstrates just how effective a signalling mirror can be..if you read the comments, it mentions they were using an American military issue 5"X3" mirror, but the smaller more common 3"X2" sized mirrors are very effective as well..

A few weeks before Christmas I was out on a local permission. It was a small field that had never produced much before, but there was a footpath through it that had produced a few nice finds as it crossed a different field not too far away so I was determined to perceiver.. The first signal was...

Have landed a metal detecting permission where an inch or two under the turf, the ground changes to hard compacted glacial gravels which makes digging with a spade a bit of a bugger. I am therefore thinking of carrying either a mini mattock like the small Hart, or even a roofers/geologists...

I was out yesterday with the Nox and flagging a bit as temps reached 30C (don't laugh!) and the ground was a bit hard/dry to be ideal. Still I plodded on, and out popped the usual mix of Viccy and toasted George coppers, a musket ball, a toy lead goose, a button off a police uniform, and then...

Below are actual recordings of WW2 Lancaster bomber crews on night time missions over Germany in 1943... They sound like the voices of old men, but in fact most bomber crews, including the pilots, was around 20 to 22 years of age, so just young lads really. They were incredibly brave and...

The video below popped onto my YouTube feed... https://youtu.be/01hxqbs1vl0 I can't help think people who go out of their way to handle and generally annoy venemous snakes like this are going to end up as another Steve "Poke iI With A Little Stick" Urwin on a mortuary slab at some point...

Evidently the tooth fairy wears clogs around here! ? ? Anticipating an easing of the lockdown rules, I got the Nox out yesterday to give it a top up charge. I sent up it up the corner of the spare room well out of the way and left it charging while I went outside to do some other jobs.. On...

So just wondering what happens to the gold once you guys get it home? Do you store it segregated according to date and location it was found or do you simply store it all together? Does it need checking for purity or Does it need any further refining at all? Once enough is collected, do...

Once the lockdown is lifted, I fancy building a small packable sluice..As a complete novice I was wondering if anybody could point me to any plans? I may be able to source a 400mm X 150mm X 50mm length of extruded aluminium channel..would this be suitable for the main body? Thanks in advance...

As a Brit who has never been to Oz, I was wondering how safe you guys feel when out in the bush or even in some of the outback towns ect? The Press over here seems to love covering the various hitchhiker abductions /murders ect, very often hinting at at the presence of a sort of a drug fuelled...

Just a quick "Hello" from a locked down Pom who is suffering from severe cabin fever at the moment.. I found the forum via a link on YouTube and have come to hopefully learn a little about prospecting for gold. My main interest is are metal detecting, which I am fairly new to, but I am also a...