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    lifesaver detector

    about 37-38 years ago my youngest daughter was around 18 months old ,and one of the older kids was messing around in the living room when a metal button popped off her dungarees (they were all the rage in the u.k back then) the youngest girl promptly grabbed it off the floor thinking it was a...
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    birds at play

    one from the spring ,not a easy shot to capture ,no hides or anything ,i was just stood behind a stone wall at a lower level taking this ,camera canon 1Dmkiii and sigma 150-600mm sport ,hand held .the house martins seemed to be using the flat area of a car park for a breeding ground . YA-HOOOOO...
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    t2 arm straps

    when i had my first T2 a few of us managed to get some arm cup straps for it ,i believe they were a FT product anyone know if there still made or not
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    mars coils any comment D.J

    not sure about stateside ,but this side of the pond a fairly new brand of aftermarket coils are appearing MARS coils apparently made in the ukraine ,at this moment in time there appears to be only one u.k importer BUT there is a waiting list for these coils ,so i suspect that the word of mouth...
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    greedy guts

    my real photography love is wildlife photography ,all my equipment is geared towards that end ,heres a recent shot of a sandwich tern with a beak full of sand eels ,flying back to the nest site and skimming the waves .equipment used was a canon 1Dmkiii and a sigma 150-600mm sport lens ,taken...
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    train photo contest pic No.3

    final entry ,this is not a toy train set ,its real life actual steam train festival photo given the tilt/shift toy town treatment in post processing ,works for me anyway :thumbup: the train on platform 1 by jeff cohen, on Flickr
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    train photo contest pic No.2

    another steam train special ,on the north wales mainline a black 5 this time pulling a full set of coaches .our normal trains on this line are high speed inter-city diesels ,these are special events put on through the year .the hardest part is getting a good vantage point . PLEASE CLICK ON...
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    trains competion

    heres my entry for the trains/railroad completion .full steam ahead special great western railway steam train on the north wales coast line G.W.R castle by jeff cohen, on Flickr
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    back in the game again

    back in the detecting game again after a 6 year break ,due to a accident injury to my left arm,anyone that remembers me will know i had one of the first t2 machines in the u.k which in them days had to be imported via canada due to european rules ,(most likely dictated by minelabs grip on the...
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    re-united after 3500 years :clapping:

    as some of you (those on the old t2 forum ) will recall about a year ago i found a bronze age socketed spear ,this was in two pieces and unfortunately the socketed part with the other lashing lug was missing ,i went out today and found the missing piece about 20 yards away from where the first...
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    merry xmas and a happy new year from the u,k

    hope you all have a great year detecting in 2009:teknetics::buds:
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    solid gold 1800's watch winder key

    probably my last hunt of the year as i'll have to knuckle down to work over the next few weeks being my busy period of the year .anyway i found this little gem this afternoon .its a solid gold pocket watch winder key a first for me never found a gold one before
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    some more finds from tues

    heres a few more bits from tues dig ,there's a william of orange shilling from the 1600's (badly worn) a nice pewter buckle about the same timescale,and a modern motor-biking badge ,not a bad day in all respects.also the last pic shows a king george 3rd halfpenny still in the side of the hole...
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    heaviest find i've ever made ,and it was deeeeeeeeep to

    found this on tues following in the footsteps of a buddy with a e/trac he totally missed it ,for the less knowledgeable its a roman lead pig (ingot ) made into a suspension weight ,it actually weighs in at no less than six and threequarter pounds ,that ties in with the roman markings of V11 on...
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    first time out with e-trac nice find :super:

    took the -e.trac out for its maiden run today ,and without boring you i found this little gem ,it was right by a 300,000 volt pylon a quarter of a mile from a major power station on a field so badly contaminated i had to run in high trash mode ,the find was six to seven inches down and when i...
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    new arrival another u.k e-trac

    my new e-trac turned up this morning via fed-ex deliverd in person by the son in law who is there local delivery man ,he knew what is was so it was handled with kid gloves till i got it ,still getting my head round the manual but i think i'm gonna like this one .:clapping: only one downside...
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    another u.s coin question

    half dollars a 1952 and a 1954 liberty bell /franklin silver or not and a 1946 walking liberty again silver or not cheers guys
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    a coin question for the stateside lads

    i have quite a few indian head /buffalo five cents from the 1920's and 30's are these solid silver or are they what you call clad
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    sundays little gem :ukflag:

    found this little gem today ,i think?? its the pin head off a victorian hat or cravat pin ,hollow silver ball with a amethyst embedded in it ,best of a motley bunch of finds between dodging the rain showers
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    :ukflag:bronze medieval seal matrix approx a.d 1400

    found this one today ,only managed a couple of hours before the dreaded rain struck yet again ,i was totally astounded by the sheer amount of finds that actually came off this site in that time though 'very plesed with as its probably from around the 13th century . theres a pic of the total...
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