petershire
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Hello all , first off im sorry to post on here , but me and some friends are at whits end , I / we are trying to acquire access to some farm land to do some metal detecting on in the northamptonshire area
I have asked where i live and not had any joy , as some can be quite rude. This i understand because of thieves and people that detect at night illegally etc
I understand that us detectorists have a bad name but me and my friends have many years experience between us of detecting and we know to be responsible with it
We are insured in case any thing goes wrong ( to date it never has ) , we dig to a usual depth of 4-5 inches and extract the object , and we always make sure our hole is filled in completely
So really you wouldn't notice where we had been , we expect to have some fantastic finds over the coming years and many of us are historians of the local area and would love the chance to find a farm we could detect on , and also to prove that not all detectorists are a nuisance , if the day ever came where we found something of silver / gold or serious historic value we would of course go 50/50 with the land owner
We are interested in the pleasure of the hobby , bad detectorists have given us all a bad name which is a shame as a vast majority of us are sensible and follow the rules , any rubbish we find along the way would be collected up and disposed of , and equally if any damage to exterior fences is seen we would inform the landowner asap so measures to correct it could be taken
If any lovely farm owner is open to helping us out please let me know by PM
I have asked where i live and not had any joy , as some can be quite rude. This i understand because of thieves and people that detect at night illegally etc
I understand that us detectorists have a bad name but me and my friends have many years experience between us of detecting and we know to be responsible with it
We are insured in case any thing goes wrong ( to date it never has ) , we dig to a usual depth of 4-5 inches and extract the object , and we always make sure our hole is filled in completely
So really you wouldn't notice where we had been , we expect to have some fantastic finds over the coming years and many of us are historians of the local area and would love the chance to find a farm we could detect on , and also to prove that not all detectorists are a nuisance , if the day ever came where we found something of silver / gold or serious historic value we would of course go 50/50 with the land owner
We are interested in the pleasure of the hobby , bad detectorists have given us all a bad name which is a shame as a vast majority of us are sensible and follow the rules , any rubbish we find along the way would be collected up and disposed of , and equally if any damage to exterior fences is seen we would inform the landowner asap so measures to correct it could be taken
If any lovely farm owner is open to helping us out please let me know by PM
