Hi there, welcome to my new Metal Detection channel. You may notice I've called this channel the occasional detectorist and that's because I don't have that many permissions to go to, always looking out for more, always looking out for a metal detecting buddy maybe to go along with, but at the moment that's where things are. I am lucky enough to be part of the Surrey Metal Detecting Club as of today and we're off out to go and see what we can find in a farm over in Kent. So if you want to come with me that will be fine, but first of all I'm going to load the car up with all the things that I need to get going. Okay, first of all, strangely enough I've got my old trusty Garrett ACE 250. I've had for quite a long time now, but it's always a good backup so that can go in the car. A bag of various bits and pieces which mostly contains a spare camera and also batteries. What else do I have in there? I've also got the harness that that all goes on and hopefully that will show you all what I'm up to at the time. I've got another bag full of various bits. I've even got a book to tell me about what kinds I may find, but I'm not holding out too much hope. That way I won't be disappointed, will I? Also, I've got my normal finds bag. In the finds bag I've got a pin pointer. That's always good, not absolutely necessary, but it's a good thing to have with you. And I've also got a cleaning brush, a little pointer to help poke dirt out of things that I find, a little towel or a flannel actually in this case, which is always good for cleaning things that you find as well. Okay, I'm back and I've got my X-Tera probe. There we go. You've seen one of them before, I'm quite sure. There's lots of videos out there, of course. And it's in the little bag which helps to keep things tidy while they're floating around in the back of my car. That's it. So the next thing is let's get going detecting. Well, here we are on a rather large field, but I can say the one problem with this field is that it's very, very wet and very soggy to dig. I have to say it's a turning to quite a windy day today and this field is quite sticky. And another strong signal and I can already see that it's a lovely piece of iron. There you go. It looks like a small door off of something. Probably old tractor that anybody's guess. I'll clean it up and we'll look at it later. I'm looking my way across this field and it's a big field and let you have a look just how big it is. It's not a bad sized field. There are one or two people left up here detecting but I'll keep going. We'll have a couple of interesting little finds. We'll talk about those at the end of the video. Well, this could be interesting. Got a reasonable signal and I've dug the hole so far that the moment I'm looking at probably six inches so the hole is down there. There we go. So, I'll have a little probe around. Yep, we're having a leap. There we go. Don't let's have a look. So, look, sight down there. It looks like a bullet. Change copper coating. We'll pull it but there we go. Make sure wonder how a bullet found its way in here and it's quite a small one. So, I'll have to look into that. This is the next field. Apparently, there have been a few finds on here already but I'll see what I can find. I'll find in life hard going today. Very muddy. Found a few interesting things but let's hope for a drier, less windy day. Then life will be a little more difficult. Let's difficult, not more difficult, hopefully. I'll see you in my next video. Well, it was quite a day out there that now we're home. We can have a little look and see what my finds were and unfortunately they really aren't much to write home about. What you're looking at here are all the iron objects that I dug up. This particular piece looks a bit like the blade of something but I don't suppose it'll ever be identified. This looks like a little door off of something but I can't relate that either. Always happy to be advised. Now, I do know what this is. It's actually the head of a coach bolt. You can see where it snapped off inside but again when it comes down to it all these pieces are just junk. To look on the bright side, I suppose you could say I've done the farmers field a bit of a favour. So I'll put all those aside. I'm going to have a look at the few small finds that do have a little interest. Unfortunately, there are only three things of merit to write home about. My very first dig was this half inch musket ball and it is almost exactly half an inch having measured it. It's in pretty good condition but it's flat one side so it has hit something. It is a fired musket ball. There's no way of knowing whether it was somebody or something that it hit but looking at the indentations I suspect it was probably likely a stone rather than a body. This bullet, if you watch my video right through you all have seen me dig that one up. It has still got the rifling on it and it is a 303 and it's copper coated but it has got a core and it looks like it could be a hard core rather than a lead core but I can't identify it any more than that. This little object which looks to me to be a button of some description is only a button on one side. The other side is hollow so it might be the top of a hollow button. It's got a square top to it and it's not magnetic so I know it's not iron because it's not rusty either. It's some alloy of some description. Unfortunately unless somebody else out there can identify it for me that might remain a mystery too. Well that's the end of my first video on metal detecting and I have to say I take my hat off to people who are successful in managing to go metal detecting and to video at it at the same time. It's not an easy thing to do when you're trying to handle a detector and dig holes and handle a camera and trying to keep an eye out what's going on around you at the same time. But I've done my best and this was my first video. Next time I do a video I'll show you more of what I get up to and we'll see how I get on with that. Now I've had this lesson number one. Thanks for following me up to this point. Quite why I'm not sure but I'm sure you'll tell me. I'll see you next time.