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Thanks for the comments guys, after a bit of a rest it was time to go back and hit the old school site with renewed enthusiasm and HF Deus coil. It certainly didn't disappoint, and gets pretty good depth for such high frequencies and size coil.

Did yet another sweep around the ruins using reactivity 4 & 5 plus 32kHz, and popped a 1912 Edward penny and an almost unreadable Victorian threepence. Interested to see why the threepence hadn't been picked up before, I kept pinpointing more targets in the hole to see what was masking it, and ended up retrieving several nails from the hole - the penny wasn't a good signal at all, more of a hint that something was there.

Next target was a large and unusual two piece button with a faceted stone in the centre (plus shank on the rear), followed by a very deep patterned two piece broach? of sorts (bottom left of photo).

I decide to head back to the spot where I hit on a a couple of coins previously to see what the new coil could do. First up I thought I had a threepence only to find that it was a light coloured cloth covered button, keeping mind that nothing sounds as it should in such contaminated ground. About three feet away yet another faint target disappointingly resulted in a large rusty nail from the hole, repinpounted and yet another target remained - was delighted to find an 1878 Vic threepence (mind boggles)!

Lastly I did a broad sweep of the site, and picked up the small buckle and fob watch on the way back to the car - getting a bit dark by that stage, so time to call it quits. :)

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golddiggerart said:
Fantastic finds again, is that Flower looking thing a Brooch? :) :Y:

Not sure whether it is a broach or front piece off a buckle, all I can say it is lucky that it is still in one piece being quite fragile.
 
Absolutely fantastic Gp, all of it.
:rainbow: O:) :cool: :cool: and under a bed of nails to boot. :Y:
 
Soooo many targets at that site...What an in interesting place...every detectorists dream...Well done some great finds :Y: :lol:
 
Heatho said:
Another outstanding hunt mate. That HF coil is really producing well.

Yep, pretty impressed with it so far - does two things really good utilising the higher frequencies, picking up coins on edge, and enhancing non-ferrous targets sitting amongst iron. Many thought that the new coils were purely for gold detecting and quickly dismissed them as not being suitable for coin/relic detecting. I think some are starting to reevaluate the advantages it has to offer now they are starting to see some good finds being made with them, and positive feedback. :)
 
One more day's detecting left before having to go back to work, for something different I headed back to a Victorian era site not far from the previous church ruins. I have been over this site countless times and had almost given up on it, hence was a good candidate to try out the new HF Deus coil.

Quite frankly I was surprised at how many targets I managed to get, most were either hard to pin down, or quite deep - aside from the tap which was missed sitting under a small log. The two dog tags were from 1907-07 & 1907-08, the latter of which was at quite a depth - out of interest, a dog tag rings up around 85 on the Deus (14kHz).

The best find of the day by far was the gold gilded necklace, was not an easy target to hit upon at depth, and could have been mistaken for a bit of non-ferrous junk - hence back to the saying, always dig all non-ferrous targets on older relic sites!

One more hunt left tomorrow before giving the ol legs and knees a breather for a while. ;)

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Pretty fungus!
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Nice run :cool: :Y: That's a cool looking chain, I've been meaning to drop a chain on the ground to see what it sounds like
I probably walk away from it with what they sound like spread out a bit :rolleyes:
Cool schroom 8) :lol:
 
Nice finds again, my goodness they dropped a lot of stuff back in the day, mind you everyone still drops a lot of stuff today but not with the history that comes with your location. Awesome stuff. :) :Y:
 

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