Metal detectors - anyone here using one?

[daveh]

Does anyone here have a metal detector and uses it to look for treasure etc? That is, of course, excluding the one in use at the airport!

 

I have one, used very infrequently to date, but was wondering about using it in some of the nearby fields to see if anything of interest and/or value could be found.

 

There could be anything buried out there. Perhaps some St Ninians treasure equivalents, even.

[daveh]

In response to my original query, I take it that there are no users of metal detectors amongst the shetlink contributors, then.

Fair enough.

[shetlandpeat]

I did once up the hill, found loads of .303s.

 

The beaches were full of rusted roses (Shetland type).

 

May be the beaches after a hot sunny day. All them pound coins fallin out of pockets.

[paulb]

we have one but its just gathering dust.

[trooter]

Not found anything of interest, mainly just rusty lumps of iron, but found a WW2 .303 casing in my back garden.

[shetlandpeat]

You should try it, I think you need to ask permission to detect. It can be quite relaxing, out in the fresh air and a little walk.

[daveh]

I used my detector in the garden here but just found a few very rusty bolts. I will try elsewhere soon but unsure as to where to go.

[Njugle]

Any and all of Shetland's wartime bases are scattered with spent munitions, if that interests you daveh. Collecting all the various cartridge types can be a bit like stamp collecting. The bullet heads are less interesting perhaps, but we did find some from a Gatling gun once iirc, rather than the usual .303 and 7.62s that are widespread. There are mortar ranges too, I've seen a complete tail fin come from one, but mostly just shrapnel.

 

Other than that it's a complete lucky dip.

[Symbister]

I have a much more mundane use for a metal detector. My water stopcock has disappeared under several years of grass and although I know the location to within ten feet or so, intensive probing has so far failed to reveal it. Happy to pay a reasonable fee for the use of a metal detector and operator! Please PM me if you can help.