Few silver and copper coins

[UK Brian]

The three coins top left (hammered silver penny, Roman bronze and Roman silver) came from a two day Rally I attended a few weeks ago that was near Roman sites.
The rest of the coins came from a site I found on the way home. A river and footpath area that is out of the way and has missed being detected. Very few of these areas remain undetected now.
Main detector used was an old Nautilus DMC which still runs rings round most modern machines for land use.

 

[jabbo]

All in one trip?? You guys in the UK are in the right place thats for sure.

 

[dahut]

n/t

 

[UK Brian]

Spent a few days on the way to the rally (half way across Britain) and could not get permission to detect anywhere. In the best detecting areas many have given up the hobby as they can no longer get on any land or restrict themselves to organised rallies where the rally organiser can go to a landowner and offer a stack of money to gain access to the land for a day or to.

 

[dahut]

Is appearing here, too. There are more than a few such events, here too, where organizers pay a fee to the land owner to hold what you Brits call a "rally."

Imagine how the land owner feels, after being paid for the use of his land after one of these rally's - and YOU show up hat in hand, on the cheap.

Deer hunting where I live in South Carolina has gone the same way. If you are not paid to be in a leased-land club, you better have some private land of your own, or be ready to drive to the few, far flung patches of public land still available.

So, it is coming to this in our time. Once money gets tossed around, the hobby is cheapened.
I get it, but I sure do regret it.

 

[UK Brian]

The problem is in my part of the country that there's just about nothing on the majority of the land. So you could go out day after day, pay out for travelling and to get on the land and come up with nothing.

In the past you would do a deal for a fifty fifty split and if nothing came up well, it was just your time and petrol ($6.40 per gall.) wasted.