There are two reasons beaches are good places to go metal detecting. One is because people drop things, so you can find stuff like modern jewellery – but that’s not my biggest interest. The other is because over time, the sand moves and the sea washes away parts of the beach, so you can eventually reach deeper spots. And people have frequented beaches since the dawn of time, so there’s all kinds of stuff there.
When I was a kid, my grandad used to take me out with his metal detector on the beaches down in Devon in the UK and we’d find bits and bobs, nothing crazy. Then a couple of years ago I picked the hobby back up with my partner, Emma, who is just as much of a detectorist as me.
