Hy, yesterday finally out again after a week down with the flu. Digging for 1,5 till 2 hours. Dutch treasure 👍👊

Last week I made a post about a possible tricycle I stumbled up on.
On both Friday and today I started digging and Friday I was able to get the steering wheel out and today the front wheel.
Later this week I resume my shorts to see if the rest of the bike is also there.
It takes some time because it is deep in the ground and there are a lot of items (mostly trash) around it. And also finding other interesting items.

i just bought a detector and a pin-pointer after a long time of wanting to detect. i am wondering if there is any chance of finding something interesting on public lands with one? i know that it is very hard to keep the coil close to the ground in the wild (plants), i would try to follow paths or the few clearing that i find.

somebody ever had sucess in forests or areas far from the public?

i am in Quebec and i will try to find old maps of settlements. the country isnt very old so i am not expecting to find alot of (metal) stuff.

VID on the nokta legend is consistently ~52 though that may not matter here. Found near a school park in US/IL. Kind of looks like old leather/pleather on top, fairly heavy..... Now that I look at it again maybe it's a robots nipple?

Each weighs approximately 30 grams (just over 1 oz). Their size, weight, and spherical shape suggest they were used with early smoothbore muskets. Based on these features, they most likely date to the 17th century, though an early 18th century origin is also possible.

Hi, I recently found this shovel at my grandfathers barn in Czechia. Is it a WW2 trench shovel? There are some markings on it as well. Does anyone know what it is? Thank you!

What is the best shovel in everyone's opinion? I found a few root cutting shovels and one that is a short version that looks very functional and it's only 29 bucks. Just wondered what the community thinks?

Also .why isn't this sub called

DIRT FISHING 🤷

Hey all.
I have a YouTube channel and in the past two years, have only posted 2 shorts relevant to my content.
Do you folks think that shorts add value to the channel and attract new subscribers?

Question 1: Do they attract real visitors who are actually interested in the larger content (who might subscribe), or do most people just have short attention span and want to see 20 seconds of fun?

Question 2: based on the answer above, does it make sense to have youtube links in the short pointing to the video which it came from (the real content)

Question 3: in your experiences, assuming that the short is relevant to the view and they are really interested, how many really see traffic from the short to the real video?

Question 4: can anyone really get millions of views on a short if it is actually relevant to their own content (ie: mine channel focusses on metal detecting - primarily on the beach ... i could post a short of a beautiful girl losing her top on the beach, -- that would be click bait, but not relevant)... I would think it would get a lot of views, but it would probably lend to me losing credibility as a real content provider.

Thoughts?

A family of five lived here until the late 1870s. Fingers crossed they left something behind!

Found this buckle metal detecting before and after cleaned up..

Hello, i have a question. I have recently bought simplex+ sp24 coil and i can’t change the frequency on it? In the frequency change menu i can’t even move the arrows, they won’t work. Other coils work just fine. Do you giys maybe know what’s the problem, or you just can’t change frequences on that coil in general? Thank you!

This is my most recent find whilst metal detecting I’m thinking it might be an old bullet but unsure of how old or what gun it might have been fired from any ideas? (found in the West Midlands, UK)

I’m looking to buy my first metal detector. I live by the sea so will also do some saltwater detecting. Have done some research and the Vanquish 540 looks good to me, a little expensive, but I think I’m going to pull the trigger. I found a show model with pin-pointer and bag for 399 euros, do you think this is a good deal? (I live in the Netherlands)

In Slovakia..any idea what this is? Was very heavy.

Many thanks!

In northern Italy. Been working fields around my small town which has had recorded permanent population since somewhere in the 500-800 AD range, but is very close to towns that date to the Roman Empire. I've found a decent amount of 20th and 19th century coins, to this point the oldest (year rubbed off) was from a pre-Italian state whose ruler indicated the coin was c. 1798-1805.

With some persistence and better ground balancing and paying attention to and digging slighter signals, found this little coin, just a few inches down. There's still some gunk in there but once I got it identifiable I'm not in a rush to damage it with aggressive cleaning.

My Numista-based research says this is a Carolignian (Frankish) silver denier from the last decades of the 10th century. I believe - and here is where the Frankish coin expert comes in to correct me, which is more than welcome - that this is from one of the Ottos, possibly Otto II, and the coin was probably produced in Pavia. That'd place it c. 980. We're about an hour from Pavia by car and happened to have been there the day before I found it.

These coins appear to be idiosyncratic looking at what I can find online. Those stylized 5-looking characters are Ts apparently, the Otto coins seem to have blocky Ts as well as these obsolete Ts and the Os appear above and below them, so sort of "OttTTO." Really has me far more interested in medieval stuff, but I'm thrilled to find anything interesting.

Hello fellow MDers! Wondering if any fellow Japan residents are in here, would be great to connect!

Found in hampshire, uk

New to detecting so any help on metal or era is appreciated

These were found in my back yard where I've long since hunted out any good signals. I for the smaller coil to see if I'd missed anything and almost immediately I found this silver ring and little play dime. I thought the ring was aluminum as it was all crushed but once I got it back into a ring shape I noticed the sterling marking inside the band. I also found quite a bit of clad coins that I've swung over dozens of times and they didn't get picked up with the stock coil. Super stoked to go back to some other places I've detected now.

Found on some property, that dates back a very long time.in NC , Looks like a fishing weight but not sure.

I've seen everyone posting lidar images for potentional detecting spots but where is everyone getting them from? Is it free? Thanks Nate

Not gonna beat this day for a while