metal detecting permission

ace250 · Aug 21, 2015

Hi
Iam nick a metal detectorist for about 1 year. I live in wiltshire and I'm seeking kind permission from farmers/land owners in wiltshire or Somerset to go detecting. Iam a member of the NCMD so fully covered by insurance and i have contracts to fill out and sign by both partners. Hope to hear from you soon.
Cheers

JCMaloney · Aug 24, 2015

Hi Nick,
There is already a thread for the very purpose.....

http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/not-looking-for-metal-detecting.15526/

Happy to help.

ace250 · Aug 24, 2015

Don't think you understood my thread mate ! Don't send me stupid links again thanks !!

llamedos · Aug 24, 2015

ace250 said:
Don't think you understood my thread mate ! Don't send me stupid links again thanks !!

I think you may have taken this the wrong way, it is a light hearted thread, and should be taken as such, we get lots of new members requesting metal detecting, this is how the thread was born, iirc @JCMaloney is a detectorist himself, and certainly no offence would have been meant by him posting a link to the thread.

Landy Nick · Aug 24, 2015

ace250 said:
Don't send me stupid links again thanks !!

That's a good start and many possible permission land owners will probably give you a wide berth with a comment like that.

JCMaloney · Aug 24, 2015

For sale one used copy of "How to win friends & influence people" .

@ace250 lighten up, join in, get involved. Learn things.

mick7664 · Feb 2, 2018

Just joined as I am looking for pointers as of how to ask permission from land owners and followed link, I thought it was quite funny and tongue in cheek , been looking on farming sites and quite alarmed at how much abuse is thrown at farmers because they wont give permission for a complete stranger to wander round their land and look for treasure. I will now try local land owners round Bolton area and see if I can obtain any permissions ,now must look for my copy of How to win friends lol

suffolksmallholder · Feb 2, 2018

I have written polite replys to metal-detectoristas. BUT. There are some out there who simply give the whole thing a really bad name in attitude & expectations. The above post sums the whole thing up which is quite sad really but there y'go. Hey-ho.
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chaffcutter · Feb 2, 2018

Just a word of advice to anyone looking for land to detect on, it is very likely that many farmers close to urban ares have been pestered to death by wannabe detectorists, and find it difficult to be polite when they get yet another request. Also many such farms, like ours, have been covered continuously over a period of years, and are very unlikely to yield anything other than ring pulls and old horseshoes.

bovrill · Feb 2, 2018

It tickles me how detectorists think they're doing you a huge favour by only taking half of your stuff that they've dug up.
If they really want to detect purely for the enjoyment of it, they won't mind not removing anything from the farm.

mick7664 · Feb 3, 2018

You are all quite correct about your feelings towards metal detectorists thinking that its their right to wander over and get permission. I fully understand its your workplace and as such in use most of the time if not all . Also from what I can gather it seems most places were hammered back in the eighties ,and several have been illegally detected and items removed without consent i.e. theft in any ones eyes . Having said that we are not all the same and the farms or land around me don't appear to be working farms as such , but I may be wrong on that score , I used to get a negative reaction regarding fishing old farm ponds and again it all seemed to come down to past damage caused by others . By the way I only bought detector to try new hobby as getting to old to lug half a tonne of fishing gear round ,

Mrtwhite59 · Feb 3, 2018

I do wish you well with your quest, it is a very addictive hobby and finding a permission is like finding the holy grail .
I like yourself came to this forum with great expectations thinking nobody has ever thought of asking ( how wrong was I ) so I decided on a different tact and offered my engineering services and it was a member on this forum who put me in touch with a farmer local to myself who needed a few jobs done as his engineer had retired and to be honest it’s been absolutely fantastic.
So if there is something that you could offer you might find it would help finding the permission that you want,and if you are lucky enough to be offered it treasure it so good luck and I hope the above advice helps

bobk · Feb 3, 2018

ace250 said:
Don't think you understood my thread mate ! Don't send me stupid links again thanks !!

Cough .

suffolksmallholder · Feb 3, 2018

As in @ace250's second only post. Go for the ask immediately, get the hump & flounce off! Not really someone you'd like wandering round your farm, particularly if they're of the short tempered variety.
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JCMaloney · Feb 3, 2018

Whereas some of us stick around like a "well used pair of slippers".......

Loner · Jan 24, 2019

JCMaloney said:
For sale one used copy of "How to win friends & influence people" .

@ace250 lighten up, join in, get involved. Learn things.

Looks like you are a bit of a keyboard muck stirrer, you sent me an email that is threatening in itself,and because it is secure mail server it gave me a lot of info on you mr moloney.
I take threats like that very seriously, so you can wait for the outcome of that. To all metal detectors wanting permissions, go locally to yourself, don't cross any borders because there has been a remark made to me that a certain person from anglesey does not like entering a foreign country to go to a show ie ( England ) .

JCMaloney · Jan 24, 2019

Loner said:
Looks like you are a bit of a keyboard muck stirrer, you sent me an email that is threatening in itself,and because it is secure mail server it gave me a lot of info on you mr moloney.
I take threats like that very seriously, so you can wait for the outcome of that. To all metal detectors wanting permissions, go locally to yourself, don't cross any borders because there has been a remark made to me that a certain person from anglesey does not like entering a foreign country to go to a show ie ( England ) .

Pardon me? I haven`t sent you anything thank you. :scratchhead:

Loner · Jan 24, 2019

This is a copy of the mail I received:

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JCMaloney · Jan 24, 2019

That is because you have chosen to have email notifications of replies on the forum on that thread. It`s not "from me" !
At the top of the thread is a button that say`s "Unwatch" and in your setting you can uncheck notification by email as well.
I`m sure @Clive can confirm.

Hope that helps.

bovrill · Jan 24, 2019

Something odd has obviously happened to this thread earlier, as I got a notification about an update, but it took me to the first post rather than the new ones, which is a bit odd :scratchhead:

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