I was watching Tony Robinson digging a hole in the ground again earlier on love Time Team

It got me to thinking, when I was a young teenager a neighbour helped me build a metal detector out of some plans. It never really worked that well but me & a bunch of mates had a whale of a time with it, course, we were all convinced we were going to find buried treasure and become rich and famous

Never mind the fact that most of our archaeological investigations were conducted upon the site of the recently landscaped and grassed-over local tip - think our most ancient find was a 1975 coke can 

Anybody ever had a go at a bit of amateur archaeology? or fossil collecting maybe?

I remember when i was about 10...........i placed 2 black sticks on the front garden as x marks the spot.......

Got out a spade and hit an oil caatrol gtx oil can.......................

Then when mum found a big hole in the middle of the front lawn the can hit me....................

my friends uncle loaned us a metal detector once

we found loads of old shells we lived near an old ammunition dump  plus an old original oxo tin

we got a metal detector 3yrs ago.
we have found plenty on our beach ...amo shells,even *live* ones
Rings..coins (old & new)
We found an S.O.S pendant with writting inside.
American army medal



Lots more too


my son has two boxes of the stuff for his collection

We have even taken stuff to the local musuem to have it checked