Awesome Quick Hunt with Minelab Etrac Metal Detector

I had a spare couple of hours so took myself to Hexhamshire. Since it was near the battle of Hexham (1464) and very little is known about the battle, I had hoped to find something historic since the detecting site was near a drovers road and ford.
What I found wasn't what I expected as I uncovered what looked like an army camp site from the middle of last century. I even found remains of a fire about 10" under current ground level.
In less than 3 hours I found 29 coins, 6 of which were silver and a beret badge from the army medical corps.
Groovy.
The land was uncontaminated apart from a few places so I used the 18" x 15" coil on my Minelab Etrac metal detector. I did take the 11" coil with me but only used the large coil today.
On the next dig, I will use my new 8" x 6" coil for the contaminated parts and hopefully pull up a few suprises.
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[legohead919]

Just a small question : I have an Etrac 15" SEF combo as well - the tone you had on that 11:44 was very low, any chance of sharing your settings ? I just run TTF MAINLY

[pondguru]

I think in this video I was using the preset 'relics' program but I can't remember for sure. The best one I've found so far is the 'roman site' pattern which can be downloaded from the minelab website. It seems to go deep and have great audio - I ignore all deep tones. I always use that one now and it gets better results. The 18" x 15" coil helps with depth and I run sensitivity as high as I can - getting deeper with every dig now.

[gurbe95]

What a huge coins you find there in England. Here in holland we have only litle coins :P.

[pondguru]

The old coins trully are monsters. The 'cartwheel penny' of George III is a full ounce of copper and the cartwheel twopenny is two onces. Can't miss those with a detector!

[chihene]

Ha! I think you have found the long lost Hexhamshire bank vault...It certainly looks as you have found a good site...when that many coins abound there's sure to be as ring or two...happy hunting..

[pondguru]

I've found one cheapo silver ring but there are bound to be more. I'm finding ways to get even deeper with the etrac so it should continue to produce coins etc. for quite a while yet.

[legohead919]

Apologies, legohead belongs to my son - I am in fact 45 !!!!!

[pondguru]

Thanks for watching. I should be getting back there soon as I still have about 1/3 of the field to do.

[metaldetectingoregon]

I'm glad you mentioned "why" you think the reason for the coins. I'm still looking for that lost piece of land that people used as "something" back in the day and they all dropped silvers coins everywhere. Nice vid!!!

[pondguru]

I am planning to do a video about deep detecting which will have detector sound as the sound is more important than the screen display in that situation.