oldypigeonpopper Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 15 minutes ago, loriusgarrulus said: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/ These are a good resource. You just need to click "find a place" and type in the modern name of the nearest place to where your interested in and they bring up all the maps they have on that area. You need a landmark that was around at the time to use as a marker. hello, yes i used this type of information when i did a lot of detecting, your woodland should be interesting with a detector, what C scope did you get ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) 41 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: hello, yes i used this type of information when i did a lot of detecting, your woodland should be interesting with a detector, what C scope did you get ? The CS440XD. Just a basic one to get me started. I bought myself a skyscanner pin pointer as well. As the head is waterproof I could run it up the stream as well as most of the time it is only a few inches deep. Edited December 11, 2019 by loriusgarrulus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 6 minutes ago, loriusgarrulus said: The CS440XD. Just a basic one to get me started. I bought myself a skyscanner pin pointer as well. hello, that looks ok, its a non motion so you do not need to swing about much between trees, the mini head phones are ok but i would get some that cover the ears, the pin pointers handy, a decent border spade, with your small digger, i would first set the discrimination at zero so you get use to the signals from iron/silver/ etc, this detector is ideal for beaches but not sure on wet sand, anyway best of luck with your new venture, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 Sadly Ant, the only land I have is 30’ x 12’ and adjoined to the back of the house! If you want to give it a once over your welcome, but I guess all you will find is rusty nails, motorcycle parts and a few pounds of lead perhaps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 52 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: hello, that looks ok, its a non motion so you do not need to swing about much between trees, the mini head phones are ok but i would get some that cover the ears, the pin pointers handy, a decent border spade, with your small digger, i would first set the discrimination at zero so you get use to the signals from iron/silver/ etc, this detector is ideal for beaches but not sure on wet sand, anyway best of luck with your new venture, I have some headphones that cover the ears as I wear hearing aids. Small digger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 1 hour ago, loriusgarrulus said: I have some headphones that cover the ears as I wear hearing aids. Small digger hello, might be handy if you find a deep hoard of coins, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted December 11, 2019 Report Share Posted December 11, 2019 17 hours ago, lap9387 said: I'd love to try mudlarking, there are a few places up here onthe Tyne Thanks for giving me an idea You need to know what you are doing, a bit like wildfowling, you don't want to get cut off by the tide or get stuck in quicksand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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