Metal detecting: all you need to know to get started

✍ Scribed by Crisp, Dave

• Publisher: ACG Publications,Greenlight Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you have ever thought of taking up metal detecting as a hobby, or would like to give somebody a book on the subject, then this is the one to buy.

Abstract: If you have ever thought of taking up metal detecting as a hobby, or would like to give somebody a book on the subject, then this is the one to buy

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Brief History of Metal Detectors and Our Hobby
Equipment
Starter Detectors On Test
Organisations, Clubs and Dealers
Where To Search and Ten Ways To Gain Permission
The Dangers of the Farm
Detecting Land
How To Detect
What You Can Find --
Coins
What You Can Find Artefacts
Portable Antiquities and Treasure
Cleaning, Conserving and Researching Finds
Upgrading to a More Expensive Machine
Not One Hoard, But Two!
Appendices
The Treasure Act
The National Council for Metal Detecting
Further Reading
Useful Contacts
Grid References.

✦ Subjects

Metal detectors.;Treasure troves;Great Britain.;Great Britain;Antiquities;Collection and preservation.;Antiquities;Collection and preservation.;Treasure troves.;Great Britain.