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  • Jewellery Rescue

    Jewellery Rescue

    Jewellery Rescue is an Australian wide network of amateur and pro detectorists dedicated to the search and return of lost peoples jewellery for a modest fee. The E-TRAC being my preferred search prim…

  • Never Thought it Would be This Great

    Never Thought it Would be This Great

    I can't believe it! I found another silver today. I never actually thought it would be this great. I thought it was going to be better, but not like this. I used my old detector for 2.5 years. I foun…

  • Colonial Field Homesite Gives Up the Goods

    Colonial Field Homesite Gives Up the Goods

    After two weeks of tracking down the owners of the site, I finally obtained permission to metal detect some farm fields that once had dwellings from colonial days. There is still corn stubble in the…

  • Restoring 65 Years of Memories

    Restoring 65 Years of Memories

    I and fellow Dayton Digger Tom Johnson were called out to see if we could find a lost wedding ring. The gentleman had lost it; he believed in his garden plot two years before and after much fruitless…

  • Badge Of Success

    Badge Of Success

    As the year winds down, I was 1 away today from my goal of finding 30 silver coins for the year. I decided to head out about 40 minutes from my home, to a park in an old town that was established in…

  • What a First Find

    What a First Find

    Just bought a X-TERRA 305 last week for my sons and I. I did a lot of looking online hints and tips and videos on how people use the X-TERRA 305 e.g. (running in all metal mode w/ full range sound) a…

  • Brilliant Finds

    Brilliant Finds

    Have been out and about with my CTX 3030 and made some really great finds recently. The first one was a really highly decorated spur dating to the 15th Century. Then I discovered a Georgian period rub…

  • How A Bad Day Turned Out To Be A Good One

    How A Bad Day Turned Out To Be A Good One

    Yesterday, I started a new painting job on a house of a customer of mine. The morning went well, and the work was going great. That was until the rain came. The work I have done was ruined. And I cou…

  • Brand New X-TERRA 705 Hits Hungarian Cornfield

    Brand New X-TERRA 705 Hits Hungarian Cornfield

    I’ve started detecting in early 2011. First I purchased a cheap turn on and go detector that turned out to be unsuitable for true finds, therefore I moved to a better detector, similarly with m…