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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4938000, member: 10461&quot;]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">Been there, did that</a>, got the T-shirt (literally).</p><p><br /></p><p>That was the last real detecting I did.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t found a piece of silver since, as I only went out about two more times after I got back, and my detectors have been put away for over six years.&nbsp; I&#039;ve grown extremely fat and out of shape.&nbsp; Nowadays I get sweaty and out of breath just opening my mail.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the last piece of silver I dug was that Edward I &quot;Longshanks&quot; penny over there.&nbsp; I&#039;ve <i>bought</i> better examples of that type of coin for only $35, and I figure that one I found cost me about $2-3K in travel expenses, but the experience of digging it out of an English farm field <i>myself</i>, and being the first person to touch it in 700 years, made it totally worthwhile.&nbsp; Priceless.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/home.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/home.htm" rel="nofollow">This is the club I went with</a>.&nbsp; You should totally do it.&nbsp; Not necessarily with them, but with some similar group that offers tours with site permissions and help with legally exporting your finds.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was my #1 bucket list item, too.&nbsp; I&#039;d say, given your Stateside detecting experience, you&#039;d be a natural over there.&nbsp; I found myself outclassed- everybody in my group ran circles around me with their fancy top-of-the-line Minelab detectors, while I was shuffling around with an old Garrett 2500.&nbsp; I was the least successful in our group, but still had a grand old time and found some cool stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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