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Sunshine on a rainy day

11 Jan 2017

So it was the middle of summer back in the UK and the weather for the season was a wash out, with raIn every other day. It was the weekend and I had planned a detecting trip with my mate in the Usk valley by a village called Groesmont, this valley holds a castle called Groesmont castle that had been occupied from as far back as the Roman period. The land which we were going to detect has a Roman road running right through the middle of it, but now long gone. The day Leigh and myself arrived at the farm the weather held out no hope of being dry as there was a mist in the valley with fine rain coming down. We set off in the direct of the roman road and the next few hours we found the odd Victoria coin or buckle. That day I was using the minelab Sovereign GT with the large NEL coil, the GT was known as a gold hunter with a great pedigree and true to its word I had found the odd gold pendent or small ring on the beaches in the past. Lunch time had come and we returned to the car to take account of what we had found and to dry out a bit. Leigh found a good few coins mostly modern or Victorian for myself.  My pouch contained the odd buckle, a few coin and buttons. By this time it was about 14.00hr and I felt that the day was not being lucky to us at all and on speaking to Leigh about going home, he suggested that we head off down to the field that has a 200yr old footpath running across it. I remember it well so we set off from the car for a quick 30 minutes dig. On entering the field, Leigh went down the left side and myself the middle of the field. I continued to sweep my coil over the ground heading on down the field towards a foot bridge going across a small stream. I remember looking up at the bridge which was about 150 yards ahead of me, and then bang, I had a booming signal right under my coil, a lovely two way signal. I wasted no time to dig out the signal, as I removed the soil with my spade the water from the wet day was trickling down the side of the hole. On looking at the base of the hole I could see just soil so I got out the pinpointer which confirmed that there was something metal in the hole. I therefore dug deeper with the spade and then took another look. This time I was able to see a line of yellow at the edge of the hole about 13 inches down. At this point I thought that it was a milk bottle top, so I plucked out this yellow metal object and with a second glance: oh my god there in my hand was my first gold coin shining in my hand on this rainy day, my heart stopped wow then I shouted across to Leigh GOLD, GOLD COIN Leigh laugh as I always joked about what I found, but I shouting out no really gold coin. Leigh came running across to see in my hand this beautiful full gold sovereign coin. This was my sunshine on a rainy day What did I learn from this day detecting: research is key. Look at old maps for footpaths. Determination is an important factor to, I believe that as detectorists we have all walked within a 100 yards of gold. When out detecting all you need to do is swing you coil over it!

  

Peter - Wales, UK.

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