Spent three hours on the site of the old 'Goose Fair' near me. 40 coins, 
mostly copper, earlirst 1820 Victorian and up to 1945. Field was a bit 
waterlogged, looking forward to the summer!
Frankyg

P.S. I'm still trying to flog those cordless headphones for an XP...

Is that the site between Gregory Boulevard and Forest Road East?

No

 lol

Is it just you and me left in this group Rev?

> Is it just you and me left in this group Rev?

No

 lol

"FrankyG" wrote:
> Is it just you and me left in this group Rev?

Probably a lot of folks read here, but feel they don't have anything
newsworthy to add.

That 1820 copper is a wonderful find.  What condition is it in?

Joe

On 8 Feb, 22:24, "FrankyG"  wrote:
> Is it just you and me left in this group Rev?

Not quite.,
Just nobody out there swinging their thing...

All of the copper coins are in pretty poor condition I'm afraid, I'd 
describe them as 'Fair'. The strange thing is that of the 40 coins, I only 
found one silver coin, a 1914 sixpence. That one is in much better 
condition, i'd describe it as 'fine'. It was a pretty wet site with heavy 
damp unploughed soil. My explorer was giving lovely clear signals to about a 
foot down but I'm expecting to find more silver when the soil drys out.

At one time there used to be a popular idea amongst the metal detecting
fraternity that the wetter the soil, the better the signals - due to some
belief that metal targets actually leached minerals in the soil that somehow
increased the target footprints.
However I have never seen this actually proven to be true.
A more likely explanation, particular on recently cultivated land, is that
the rainwater probably causes air pockets in the soil to collapse, thus
reducing the distance from the surface to the target.

I would rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal
lobotomy!