Worked and reworked out sites.:confused::ukflag:

[Doctorcoinz]

I found this field tucked out of the way , sort of looked like it might never have been worked before. I had been detecting about 1 hour when i was approached by a guy in combat gear!. The guy said i would find nothing as the field had been worked and re worked by others for the last 27 years or so. I was surprised but then i thought well i have heard this before , you find a site that looks promising only to be informed that the site has been worked since 1980 or something.. My guess is that 90% of fields here in the uk have been worked at some time.. ... Some fields worked out harder than others i guess... Any comments welcome on worked out and re worked sites... Finds seem to be getting thinner on the ground !

 

[UK Brian]

I always think its a good sign. If people have been repeatedly returning to a site its only because it continues to produce worthwhile finds.
Re 90% of fields already having been detected all you have to do is move West and to the hills where most farms have never seen a detector. Finds are fewer...especially Roman but when you do make a find its often in excellent condition as its never been chopped ,clipped or moved through the soil by the plough.

 

[perchdoctor]

Don't know if the ground freeze where you are but the frost freeze cycle has a tendency to move objects upward, or at least around so I'd say whats left is going to be old. Good Hunting, if it was easy everyone would be doing it. Jeff

 

[Eric]

There are some old farmfields here nearby the city centre. Many, many people detected here already. But these field keep producing, en sometimes you will spend a whole afternoon and only find some musketballs, while next time you will find roman or silver hammered coins. In fact I only hunt these fields and nowhere else.

Good luck... Eric, Netherlands.

 

[UK Brian]

Could not agree more Eric. The field in the photo produced a couple of hammered silver several years back then nothing (multifrequency,twin frequency and other machines used).
A field test with a new T2 coil produced an excellent Edward II groat (1327-77) but nothing more, though I searched in all metal and removed most ferrous signals, but a follow up search with an old Compass turned up another silver penny. The key to this find was partly due to the removal of iron but also the use of a small coil.

Frost, degree of dampness, worm motion, a different frequency, type of coil can all in effect renew an old site.

Brian

 

[UK Brian]

The problem with this type of post is that Doctorcoinz has posted the view recently that the XLT is a poor detector (3-4 inches on a coin) yet another post of his says he's had FIVE XLT's. I had a very good long box Spectrum then a not so good XLT. I sent the XLT back and they fixed it.

Brian

 

[Boogeyman]

I was detecting a park in Denver Colorado that had been a good park for silver, mostly dimes. One day this older gentleman waddled up to me dragging his oxygen bottle behind him. He proceeded to inform me that I wouldn't find a thing here. He went on that he had searched it out and gridded the park going on ten years. I grinned while pulling out a fairly large handful of coins mostly silver, and a small gold cross from the soccer field, and told him I'd probably keep trying between his "grids". He waddled away, never saw him again.

On the same note. I can't remember who said it back in the 70s But a statement was made. "You could take a large army of detectorists and let them go for 10 years, and they'd never find it all." I try to keep that statement in my mind every time I hunt.

 

[mailman14]

If you are ever lucky enough to get onto a really old "Ghostown", especially a Western one, you will
find dig holes galore. This should bring a smile as you are on the verge of a most exciting day if you
have the patience to work slowly in all metal mode. It is extremely difficult to go back to pounded city
parks and schoolyards afterwards.

 

[jmaryt]

damn straight!..with the advent of the new fast recovering digital circuits,old parks,and other long "so-called" hunted out sites are producing again!

(h,h!)
j.t.

 

[bustercrab]

I have family members who live in Plattsburg,N.Y. and I visit for the month of August.31 miles away there is a small hamlet called,Loon Lake and in the cemetery the oldest grave is dated 1651.My first time there I asked if I could detect the area and was told that nobody had ever been here with a detecter.So far to date,I am still the only one who has ever detected there and what has come out of the ground is very impressive.....I guess having an uncle who is the warden at the state prison nearby,helped.

 

[nugget71]

If I'm detecting and someone says that to me I merely laugh at them and continue on my merry little detecting way. I cant tell you how many times I have heard someone tell me "its all gone mate, there's nothing left" only to find something not long after. No one finds everything I don't care who they are or what detector they are using there will always be something for the taking. It also arouses my suspicion if I'm told that as well and often wonder are they saying that to try and get rid of me because I'm actually in a good spot? You be the judge of that and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Cheers!

 

[Steve(MS)]

That's like waving a red flag in front of me when someone tells me a place is hunted out. I was told that this past year about a site I have been detecting, I have pulled out some goodies there.....

 

[Tinfoil]

n/t