Bavaria Mike
New member
I have detected about 22 hours the past two weeks and half the hours in the new area where I am moving to. Found a nice apartment right in the middle of my detecting region. The new area has been a slight let down so far, not many finds for the hours put in and nothing very old. I detected near a Celtic fortress, it is on a hilltop plain. The fields here are extremely rocky and are tough on the finds. Nearly every field I detected had grid/foot marks as if someone had detected it already, what a bummer I thought until I met a man out for a walk. He asked me what I was doing and I explained the hobby mentioning someone had beat me to the fields, he explained the tracks are from people hunting for Geodes and crystals and he has never seen anyone with a detector. I picked up a hand full of crystals and half a Geode just because they are pretty and now realize this is something else to look for while detecting. I