I doubt there's a detectorist on this forum who isn't nodding their head in recognition and agreement with these sentiments. The mystery to me is why I came so late to this hobby. You don't need to even dig to find stuff, as field-walking for pottery, fossils, sun-bathing relics is pleasing exercise - the time spent on the internet researching a find is usually longer than the time it took to recover it.
A silver denarius was great last week, but also found half a dozen musket balls (the dread shotgun cartridges of yesteryear), half a buckle, a sea-urchin fossil and a sheep's tooth. A good day.
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