It seems that people can chill. The whole thing was supervised by an independent expert who is an ex-Flo and was in contact with the current flo. It looked chaotic, he said, but actually it wasn't. The soil was removed in structured stages by the JCB and again supervised. People tend to get noisy an...

Of course people get excited. So lets try not to get po-faced about this. This a hoard...it isn't a saxon ship burial and therefore unlikely to have much 'context'. That tends to be the whole point of a hoard. Context would make it easily stumbled upon. So they are going in with metal trowels. So? T...

In answer to your original question....As long as your first machine is a capable machine (and the Garrett is) then I would say learn that machine thoroughly before you upgrade. There is much more to detecting that simply the model and spec of the machine. You are the other half of the equation. It ...