Find: Bronze Age Axe Head Location: Pasture field between Llanharry and Ystradowen Machine: Minelab CtX3030 with 17 inch coil Recovery: Strong signal, registering at 12/34 recovered from a depth of 12 nches. Finder: Geraint Williams Tonteg South Wales.
I had been detecting all day on Auto sensitivity +3 as I seen it recommend on a YouTube video as this was my first time out with the 17 inch coil and only my 3rd time out with the CTX, I found it strange that all day every hole I'd dug was all just around 6 inches deep and nothing at any depth at all, I started thinking about what could be the cause of this so I switched back to manual on the way back to the car as the rally was over, I only walked 20 ft after switching it to manual and I had a belting 12/34 signal just meters away from where I parked the car, I started digging and the signal stayed strong, the deeper I was going a fellow detectorist was saying leave it it iron that deep, because the numbers were consistent I carried on digging and then, the last shovel it piped up and I seen it, I knew straight away it was a bronze age axe head so I shouted ace head, Dicky wareham the rally organiser and a few other just shut up he's pulling our legs but they could tell by my face I wasn't joking around, they couldn't believe it and the first thing Dicky said was it was a very early type and that it was thousands of years old, I never had time to search out the area I found it so hopefully we'll go back on another rally when the grass is short to have another go, I'm simply blown away by my find when I hold it in my hands and think the last person to hold this was Bronze Age Man Hunter gatheres.
