bill

Just wondering if this still goes on, i left my club because it was full of
people who did this.

Groggy

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Just wondering if this still goes on, i left my club because it was full of
people who did this.

I would not say clubs are full of them, but you'll always get one or two sad
pillocks who do this but they are easy to find as they always have the best
looking find or artifact on the table month in, month out. By the same
token you will also find the people who find not much at all but keep on
plugging away at the hobby.

Groggy

Gerry

Absolutely no need if you've got good land. Just lately I've found more
Celtic than hammies...just working on newly aquired land that has older
habitation.

"bill" <william@billystevo.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Just wondering if this still goes on, i left my club because it was full
of
> people who did this.
>
>

steve_beats@hotmail.com

I've only ever come across a couple of people like this. One of them
was so daft he found the same hammered coin three weeks in a row (I
think it was and Elizabeth I shilling). Because it was three diffeent
clubs meetings, he thought he had a different audience to brag to when
in fact, there were many who attended all three like him. Dipstick!

You might think it's pretty harmless, and just feel sorry for guys like
this, but I have indirectly suffered fallout from this kind of
behaviour...

I occasionally attend weekend club meets in Bucks. I never joined a
club as I prefer detecting alone, but lack of available land during the
summer sometimes nudges me out of my anti-social stance and I attend as
a guest (just means I pay 50% more for the day's detecting).

I vividly remember one meeting where a member showed me an aerial photo
of the field we were about to be unleashed on. It had a long low
hillock running through the middle and I thought I could see a faint
rectangular stain right next to this in the photo. So when the whistle
went off, I hightailed it across the field, barely waving the detector
and made sure I got to this spot first. I then started circling in the
general area. Within 30 minutes, I had six nice sestertii in my pocket
and after three more hours I'd found another four. Ten chubby romans in
one morning - a personal best. Needless to say, I was well chuffed.

But when I showed my finds to the "regulars" on the gate, three of them
accused me of bringing coins in. No benefit of the doubt or skeptical
noises; just an immediate, out and out accusation! Very rude! I managed
to collar one guy who'd actually seen me dig one up - and he backed my
story - but they decided I could have just buried it before he came
along!

Frankly, I don't give a toss what they think, but it was embarassing at
the time and it did leech a bit of pleasure from the day.

So I guess the point I'm making is that these sad gits can spoil things
for others by breeding mistrust - even though we like to think it's
only themselves they're fooling.

Cheers
Beats