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General detecting talk / Old field that's unproductive

« Last Post by The oil man on May 20, 2023, 08:08 pm »

Hey troop


Never give up on an unproductive permission is my advice 

A couple hours today and hardly a signal then this 👍🤸

Also I've found over the years that a hammered is a great signal, no messing nearly always 🤔

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General detecting talk / Re: Treasure act change

« Last Post by Keith67 on March 14, 2023, 10:32 pm »

Seems to give more flexibility to claim anything.

An items "significance" as well as age, metal, size or numbers.

It makes sense really, if we find something that has a special significance then you can understand why they would want to hold on to it, although I think the term "treasure" needs replacing.  Maybe SHOs - Special Historical Objects. That could cover anything and could have classifications underneath in sub sections.

We're always being encourage to declare our finds and "show" them to FLOs - so that way, anything nice becomes a SHO-er. 
 

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General detecting talk / Re: Treasure act change

« Last Post by rusty old bucket on March 14, 2023, 05:57 pm »

Yep, no sweeping  changes as you say Mayhem..
I can see the argument  they make when you look at finds like the Ryedale hoard falling short of the treasure act and being sold off privately ..Although in it's  case it  was secured for the museum via donation....

That said if I had found it and had a valuation from the TVC .I maybe of a different opinion

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General detecting talk / Re: Treasure act change

« Last Post by mayhem147 on March 14, 2023, 03:09 pm »

Probably not going to be in place until next year, at the earliest.

Our FLO reckons that that it will have next to no impact on the vast majority of our finds, which will still not be classed as treasure. However, the "significance" clause does theoretically mean that almost any find over 200 years old could be treasure if they were creative enough with the interpretation.

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General detecting talk / Treasure act change

« Last Post by rusty old bucket on March 14, 2023, 02:28 pm »

This new legislation had gone right over my head..As far as I can see was proposed last year!
Changes to what will be determined as treasure ..

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-treasures-to-be-saved-for-the-nation-as-rules-about-discoveries-are-changed

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General detecting talk / Re: Is it unusual?

« Last Post by The oil man on March 06, 2023, 06:19 am »

There are some mole hills Nailman and I made sure i covered those 👍

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General detecting talk / Re: Is it unusual?

« Last Post by nailman on March 05, 2023, 07:04 pm »

Is there a lot of Mole or Rabbit activity on your pasture ?

Ploughing is not the only method Artefacts can be moved close to the surface layers worms, moles etc
this is called Bioturbation

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General detecting talk / Re: Is it unusual?

« Last Post by The oil man on March 04, 2023, 10:47 pm »

Keep going Oily, the Roman shows potential, at least if it's local you can do short "maybe get lucky" hunts.

Yes I'm lucky really Keith to have land to detect on my doorstep.
I just like to pop over there as it's so easy and accessable but rarely I'm rewarded.

So far in about 30 hours of detecting I've had one hammered and one Roman .

To be fair though I've enjoyed the hunt..🙂

That's the great thing about detecting, you never know what's going to pop up next ..

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General detecting talk / Re: Is it unusual?

« Last Post by Keith67 on March 04, 2023, 08:52 pm »

Keep going Oily, the Roman shows potential, at least if it's local you can do short "maybe get lucky" hunts.

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General detecting talk / Re: Is it unusual?

« Last Post by The oil man on March 03, 2023, 04:59 pm »

That's so common, has cattle been grazing on it? If so the salt content will be high which can sometimes be difficult to unlock those targets.

There has Gary so maybe that's it 🤔

I keep going there as it's so close but with few rewards 😐

Off to a new permission Sunday however so fingers crossed..