VICTORIAN SILVER! - UP IN THE HILLS WITH MINELAB ETRAC AND 18" COIL

Hello there. This is going to be possibly a very quick hunt. I've got about two hours this afternoon and I've returned to, I don't know whether you can just see behind me there, that is an 18th century church which was actually built on the foundations of a medieval church. Um... I've been in this field before. I found a couple of spindle whorls. That was with a Garrett Ace 150. I found a George III Halfpenny. I've never been in with the E-track, so this, hopefully, might produce something decent. As far as I know, nobody's been detecting here, it's private land, so I'm going to have a dig. This is the first signal, just here, round about there. It's reading 1240 to 1242, and I'm going to give it a dig and see what's in. Oh, get in there, I see silver. Whose is this one? Uh, three pence, that's what's a threat me bid. I'm not going to rub it too much because it hasn't got much detail on it, but it looks like a late Victorian one, so it'll be late 1800s. I'll clean it up and let you have a look at the end. Well, that hunt was absolutely atrocious. I found one coin, and it was silver, which is good, but after about two hours of walking around in the rain, I gave up. I'll show you that coin at the end. It's a pretty nice coin, a little bit worn. It's actually, the year was 1900, Queen Victoria, for a bit, but now I'm on my way right up into the hills. I normally hunt, you know, pretty much upland pasture, but this is probably right up in the hills. It's hopefully never been done before. But I'm not sure. There is people in the next village who I know have metal detectors. Whether they've been on this particular site or not, I don't know. I hope not, because it's a very small village that I'm going to go around. It's been built on a medieval village. It's got a peel tower there that dates from, I think, the 13th, 14th century. It's in ruins now, but there's a church there. There's nice fields behind it. It's all pasture, but at one point there was about 1,200 people. Living in and around that area when they were really into lead mining. So with any luck, not many people will have done it with a detector, if anybody. Hopefully nobody has done it. That would be perfect. Even if people have done it, I just hope they haven't done it with machines that go anywhere near as deep as the A-track, because I'll still be able to go where they've been and pull stuff up. So this hunt hopefully will be very good. It might turn out to be crap. But stick with me, you'll see what I find. Right up into the hills now, and here's a place where I've always wanted to go detecting. There's two very strange hills there. Almost looks like, just looks like a set of arse cheeks sticking out the top of the hill. Really strange. They look to be approximately 100 yards across, and they really stand out. There's an abbey here, which was originally founded in the 1100s, and the surrounding land has got to have some Relics, gotta have some relics. I'm hunting approximately a mile and a half away from this village, so there's gotta be something there. Gotta be. Here's some more flats next to the river. There's actually a show on there every year, and that's happened since the year dot. That'd be an awesome one to do, but that's not where I'm going, unfortunately. Nobody can go on there. Now, when I'm on my way up here, I will say that the village where I'm gonna be detecting around Not everybody used to be clustered in a tight community. The community would be very scattered when the mining was on. There'd be loads of little small holdings on the hills all up the valleys and people really would be scattered all over the place and all those dwellings would be linked by footpaths. So there'd be people, horses, all sorts of things going backwards and forwards all day, possibly all night as well. So finds really could be anywhere. So I don't know where to start. Why is it as soon as I start filming it gets windy, or it rains? Unbelievable. But here's the first decent signal that I've had. I've dug a button so far, been out about three quarters of an hour, and we've got a good signal down here. It is a coin. Looks like big Georgian penny. It's actually a cartwheel penny. You see the ridge around the outside. So that most likely be 1797, certainly late 1700s. Don't think there's any detail left on it. But that's a good start. The very next dig yields a musket ball, no more than an inch and a half under the surface. Nice big musket ball as well which is encouraging because that's an early one. Another good find. Buckle there, unfortunately I've hit it with a speed, it was on its end. It was giving a real freaky signal and I made a bit of a balls of pinpointing that one, even with the 11 inch coil. But still, it's a find. Made a couple of finds down by the stream, just on the other side of the wall. Hi, Paul. But that wood behind me, that's pretty much where the village is, so I'm heading over there. There is a few footpaths across these fields, so I'm going to stick the big coil on, and I'm going to try to get a little bit deeper. There's quite a few signals that I've picked up, or just little bumps and little suggestions that there might be something there. Hopefully this big fella will be able to find them a bit better than the standard coil. Now this is a D-Tech 18x15 SAF coil, very heavy, hence the harness and bungee that I'm going to have to support it, but it does get a lot deeper than the standard 11-inch coil, so hopefully I'll be able to drag some things up from way down in the ground. I was beginning to give up hope, I found a couple of Victorian pennies. But the wind has been terrible, so I'll probably just edit those out. Just dug down approximately 9-10 inches. And here on end is, what is it, 1 shilling? Probably is Victorian. Yeah, a Victorian shilling. Not in bad condition. Quite an old one as well. It's 1845. It's a nice find. That's a good 9 or 10 inches. And it looks like it's a very small coin. Not sure what that one is. Just about make out the outline of a bust on us. Now this was reading 1238. Quite a choppy signal, but it wasn't too bad. And that's a hell of a depth for a small coin, which I think I may have clipped with a spade. Oh dear. And it's a milled silver coin. It's a Victorian sixpence. Very black. And we can see how deep that is. That's a hell of a depth. It was lying flat, but it did give a great signal. That big coil really has made a difference. There's another decent signal reading 1234. That's a button. Thought it was a coin for a minute. I'm actually just out the back of the church and this is where I've been finding all the Victorian coins. I found maybe there's a dozen now or so. It's the first button though. This was about six inches deep and it was reading 1244 or 45. Looks like a coin ball so I'm hoping it is indeed a coin. It is a coin. By God, it looks like an old one. It's a George III. George III, half penny. Looks like we've got another coin ball here. Big old penny from, oh, I don't know, nine, ten inches again. That one's a George V. What year is it? Let's have a look. 1911. Nothing bad, Nick, that, actually. That looks like another half penny. It looks like another George III, half penny. Found a few of them now. They're pretty much knackered, like. Not be able to get a date or pretty much get nothing off it. No detail. That coin there was sitting on the clay. It was flat, but it was sitting on the clay way down in the soil. See how far my arm is in? Pretty much up to the elbow. There's a good depth. Day's getting on now and I'm finding these Georgia Third coins in this bottom corner of the field. It's on the top side of the village. The village is just over there. I've got another signal here. I found two or three half pennies in amongst here. This one isn't as deep. I just hope it's another coin. Yep, it's another coin. Looks like another halfpenny, and which way is he facing? No, it's about knackered. I would say it's another George III. I'm saying it wasn't as deep, it's still a canny depth. Yeah, it's still maybe eight inches or so. I'm miles away from any houses, but I've got a good signal here reading 1245, and at about nine inches again. Ah, thought it was a coin, but it isn't. Thought that was a coin, but I don't think it is. This is what I thought was a coin with the five dints in it. And I don't know whether you can make out, but there is, probably it's not too bad when the light's reflecting on it, but that's Britannia on the back, so it is indeed a penny, and it's most likely been hit with a shotgun, which has caused those dints. First one I've had like that. So I'm back home now, and this is the sum total of almost eight hours metal detecting. It was pretty hard going, and most of these finds were made pretty much within about 150 yards of each other. So there was a real hot spot. And the rest of the land was pretty devoid of anything. Got a small collection of Georgian coppers here. Not sure what that one is. I'm just lumping it with the Georgian. But there's half pennies and pennies. And there's also a really knackered cartwheel penny. Can't see any detail on that. Then we've got a few Victorian George V and also had with the seventh coins. Again, pennies and half pennies in fairly bad condition. And they include this one, which has been hit with a shotgun at fairly close range by the looks of it, because that's penetrated quite a long way into the copper, and that's a hard coin. On the face of it, it's not that interesting, but it was in the middle of a field, which makes me think it was either chucked up in the air and then shot. It was possibly in somebody's pocket when they got shot, which would be an awesome thing. But anyway, it's the first one I've had like that. It's got a few buttons. There's actually almost as many buttons as coins. A lion ring there. A belt buckle. A particularly interesting one. I'm not entirely sure what this is, but it has been gilded at some point. And there's a few modern coins, totaling five pence. Big old musket ball, lovely and round that one. And there's three silver coins. Bear in mind I got this one from the previous hunt, the one I dug up in the field near the church. It's an old head Victorian threepenny bit, and the year on that is 1900. These two I got from my hunt way up in the hills, and that one's a sixpence. which is 1866 in very worn condition and that one is a shilling which is 1845. Condition of that one's a little bit better but it's still very worn. This one if you remember was on its end so all I had to detect was something as wide as that so to pull that one up was a an achievement and also because of the depth to pull this one up was a bit of an achievement as well. So all in all, not a fantastic hunt, but it was interesting. I found a hotspot, so there may be more stuff there. The good thing is there's quite a lot of Georgian coins in a small concentration, so there may well be some silver amongst that, which would be really nice to find. Because most of these coins were hellish deep, I do feel that if I didn't have the e-track, which gets good depth by itself, and also I didn't have the big coil, I probably would have missed at least half of this stuff. So I think it did make a real difference. Thanks for watching.