I and a couple of detecting friends decided to have a serious detecting weekend before the winter closed in. During this weekend we happened to pass a beach, en-route to where we planned to search. Although we had never been to this place before, the beach looked interesting as the sand seemed stripped from the beach. As the sun was shining we agreed that we could spare an hour to see if it had already been hunted out.

Dropping down onto the foreshore I started to ground balance my IIBa, this proved a problem and I couldn’t figure out why the detector was sounding off. Then I realised it was because the foreshore was carpeted with signals every sweep resulted in at least four positive signals. Many of these where of course rubbish or varying kinds but there were also a lot of coins jumping out. My tally for the hour and a half spent there was over sixty coins, all modern except for one from the 1920s. Best of all though was the first gold ring to fall to my Naughty, nothing exceptional a 14k fashion ring, but gold never the less. I also recovered two small silver medallions; the only other piece of gold recovered by our party was a small zodiac medallion.

We decided to leave the beach to do some serious detecting as originally planned; needless to say we should have stayed on the beach!