Metal detecting?

[Rune Haako]

Does anyone else on here metal detect?

[Paulskywalker]

OOOOooooo!!!! I'm an archaeologist were pretty much all anti-metal detectorists in the UK, not all of them declare their finds or ruin sites losing the all important context. Plus we get nighthawks who enter digs at night looking for things to sell on; common across Europe. Obviously not all are out to make money off finds as more do use the Portable Antiquities units now as it has made them more aware of the Treasury Act etc, a lot are helping and working with archaeologists these days; as with anything theres good and bad. Rant over!!

What do you tend to look for?

[Rune Haako]

Mostly coins, old silver coins.

Don't archaeologists sometimes use metal detectors?

[Paulskywalker]

Not really, but they have started to be used a tiny but, like on the spoil heap and the odd trench.

What types of coins you found?

[Rune Haako]

Just old US silver coins, and wheat back pennies.

Nothing that belongs in a museum.

[Paulskywalker]

Some nice coins, any dream coin you'd like to find?

[Rune Haako]

Any that's worth alot of money.

[Paulskywalker]

Do you get many coin or metal hoards in the US?

[Rune Haako]

You mean like a cache? I've read of people finding them.

[Paulskywalker]

Yeah the name comes from the assumption that the person who left them hoarded them. I take it in the US it would be possibly hoarding during the Civil War etc.

[Rune Haako]

Yeah and during the Great Depression.

[Paulskywalker]

Yeah generally their associated with some social stress or being the US going by Western Movies all those bloody bandits you had to put up with.

[Rune Haako]

Gold finds,

[Paulskywalker]

Cool, have you done any research on the medallions yet?

[Rune Haako]

Not really, I just know it's from the old High School in my town. (It's no longer a school.)