Rockmeister
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Anyone? I don’t yet but loved the series and vaguely wondering ‘what if’?
Yebbut supposing it's a Tango ringpull? Or a “Jim'll Fix It” badge?I've got a couple of friends who do it. It's great if you like walking up and down in a field and getting excited about finding a rusty bolt.
Stick to watching the TV series.
Sad fact, most of these guys are reduced to scanning beaches after the day trippers have gone home, there's a word for them in the animal kingdom, 'bottom feeders'.
A detectorist acquaintance helped find someone's lost 19th century Chinese opium pipe. The pipe owner was a professional & was hugely embarrassed. He said "it's been a bad day for archaeology".
The "professional" is an experienced archaeologist who prides himself on finding objects - like 19th century Chinese opium pipes - without things like detectors.That bit in italics? I'm confused. A professional? Why is that embarrassing or relevant, and how is someone helping him find something a bad day for archaeology? Sorry if I'm being thick this am, but??
We have one in the back room. We got it for the kids really.Always forget it when we go to interesting places. I remember driving through Edwinstowe once and saw a whole load of detectorists rummaging through a newly ploughed field. Intrigued.
The guy that sold us the MD encouraged us to join a club. We did get permission to detect around the Pilgrims Church at Babworth. Was fun.Detectorists form groups, and these groups have standards of operating that they present to landowners. If the landowner agrees to the group detectoring on his land, the whole group will go. Lone detectorists can have a difficult time.
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