It has been a busy week so I decided to close up at 4pm today and go detecting, arriving at the park at about 4.05 keen as.
This time I set up the E Trac a bit differently to my usual as I would again be on ground that I have been over lots before. I decided to set the sensitivity much higher at 20 on the manual setting and the main screen on Relics. Then I reset Quick Mask so that all that screen was black except roughly the top right quarter.
Well I will be using these settings again as they were really fun. Relics was showing me everything that was there and then Quick Mask helped make quicker decisions on whether to dig or not. The trade off with the sens that high was that I dug heaps of 1 and 2 cent coins - 26 altogether - but thankfully only about 4 tear tabs due to Quick Mask. Perhaps I am finally getting to grips with this machine as I have tried similar settings before but not so successfully.
I hunted till 8pm when the detector battery died and I am really pleased with the result.
4 pieces of Silver, $6 goldies, 2 NZ Forces buttons, an Aussie $2 (which means they will come second in Sundays game), a 1896 English penny and a 1915 English half penny.
Here is a closer look at the silver.
Two English Sixpences and an English 3p. The 3p is wafer thin but I can just see the big 3 on one side and Victoria's head with crown looking left on the other. No date visible - any idea's anyone?
The other piece of silver appears to be the base of something small, perhaps a figurine as the break away mark on it is shoe shaped.
I really enjoyed this hunt. Brain want's to get out there again. Body says wait a while.
Thanks for looking.
HH