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                        You  may make use of this notice board for posting For Sale, Events or other notices. Email using the address given on the Contacts page. Notices  will be posted for one month ( or longer on request ) or until the owner requests its removal.

 

Thank you 09/12/2011

From: Allison Price (tx@rosemary-foundation.org.uk)
Sent: 09 December 2011 14:18:51
To: solentmdc@hotmail.com


To the Secretary, -

On behalf of The Rosemary Foundation I am emailing to say a huge thank you to the Solent Metal Detecting Club for your exceedingly generous donation of £500.

We are so grateful for your on-going support for The Rosemary Foundation. It is only with help such as yours that our nurses can continue caring for people within their own home as life draws to a close. Thank you all for your kindness in helping to make this possible.


With our best wishes

Yours sincerely


Allison Price
Volunteer Administrator
The Rosemary Foundation

www.rosemaryfoundation.wordpress.com
 

 

 

An important warning to detectorists !

       Imagine you have had a good day detecting on the farm, - where you have permission to detect. You have, in your pocket, a few hammered coins, an old ring, and some other interesting odds and ends that you have found.  You call it a day and start out back along the footpath to where you parked your car. You leave your own farm and you are on the footpath through a neighbouring farm, carrying you detector and, perhaps, still wearing you headphones, possibly even trowel in hand. Suddenly you are confronted by an angry landowner who, quite rightly, is furious at having caught a detectorist on his land. Perhaps he has had nighthawkers on his land and, at last, he has caught a detectorist in his fields. You, however innocent you feel, are in deep trouble.  In the eyes of the law you are 'going equipped to steal' and have been caught red-handed.

     A hypothetical scenario?  Unfortunately, no!  You might feel safer as a member of a club. But what can your club do on your behalf. Go to the landowner with a grovelling apology and explain what happened, and hope that he believes you and takes the matter no further?

     Be warned, being on private land in possession of a detector, without permission, can result in serious repercussions that affect not only you, but the whole detecting fraternity.  The next time you are out and about with your detector, whether walking to the beach or making for your farm where you have permission, consider whether you will find yourself walking across private land, detector in hand. Such a simple mistake, but it could have dire consequences. Walking across the countryside with your detector over your shoulder is to invite serious trouble. Don't do it! This is a warning, not only for our club members, but to all detectorists. Be aware!  

       And, while on the subject, footpaths are just a legal right of way to enable you to get from A to B across private land. They are not public land and should not be detected on without permission of the landowner. This is also true for river banks and canal towpaths.

  If you have any opinions or comments on this ( or any other detecting issues ) you can air them live on this web site by going to the Forum page and clicking on Guestbook/forum link, then clicking on the Forum box and selecting 'New Entry'

 

 

 

Serita Wesley swesleycasting@gmail.com

To Solentmdc@hotmail.com

Good Day,
My name is Serita Wesley and I am a Development Casting Director with a production company out of Australia. We are currently developing an exciting new documentary series based around the world of Treasure Hunting (Battlefield Detecting, Aviation Archaeology, Warbird Restoration, Shipwreck Diving, etc.) Unfortunately, we have yet to find a charismatic and knowledgeable host for this series.

I am reaching out to you to see if there is anyone in your treasure hunting circle of associates that might be perfect for this opportunity. Ideally we would like to find someone who is incredibly passionate about treasure hunting, has a wealth of knowledge (its not required to be an expert on all of the sub-categories listed above), someone with a very outgoing personality that viewers would find easy to watch and trustworthy.

We are looking for these individuals in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. I have pasted below the casting notice for this particular search. Our deadline is fast approaching; therefore, I would love to begin receiving submissions immediately.

If you or someone that you know of fits this description please contact me, Serita Wesley (Casting Director) at SWesleyCasting@gmail.com.

NOTE: Please feel free to pass this note and the casting notice along to any groups, clubs or forums that you might belong to pertaining to treasure hunting.

Thank you so much for your time, and please do not hesitate to contact me for more information.

Sincerely,

Serita Wesley
 

 

 

MD User survey‏

From: Felicity M B Winkley (f.winkley@ucl.ac.uk)
Sent: 02 August 2011 14:43:57
To: solentmdc@hotmail.com

        My name is Felicity Winkley and I am a PhD archaeology student conducting research on metal detectorists and their attitudes to landscape and objects findspots. I have the backing of the NCMD and am hoping to get 1,000 responses to my questionnaire, so I am really hoping your club might want to take part. I developed the questionnaire in the Spring and tested it on a club in Kent, who gave me some good feedback. The final version is now ready to go live and can be accessed online at: https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=15062   

     I have also attached a word doc version in case any of your club members would like to complete it on paper? If your club are interested in completing it at their next meeting I would also be happy to post out a bunch of copies and can give you a return address. In the meantime, it would be so great if you could spread the word amongst the Solent MDC and your contacts. I am also interested in chatting to anyone who has a good tale to tell, or indeed about protecting land where you detect from nighthawks. Please do let me know if you have any questions, and thanks so much for your help, Felicity

 

 

Metal Detecting Hobby Talk  

The Metal Detecting Hobby Talk - MDHTALK News Brief is emailed monthly to over 450 metal detecting and prospecting clubs, across the U.S., Canada and England plus 300 businesses in the U.S. There is a U.K. news page on the site plus this month the MDHTALK HOME page feature article is how to prepare for metal detecting tip to England. I hope you will take the time to visit the site and give MDHTALK some feedback. The MDHTALK website is: http://www.mdhtalk.org

For some interesting UK news, click on the link http://www.mdhtalk.org, wait for the site to load,  - on the NEWS page go to Hobby News and click on 'Hobby news Page 3: UK and European News'.

     
 Can you help. My wife is hoping to find out more details of the crash that killed her uncle in WW2. He crashed his Blenheim on overshooting the runway in bad weather at Thorney Island.Have any of your members ever conducted any sweeps of the airfield perimeter? Any suggestions welcome
Thanks,
Peter Edwards.     pedwards18@btinternet.co

 

 To the Solent Metal Detecting Club,


I have visited your club on 3 occasions over the past couple of years, to tell people about my PhD project. Just as a reminder, I am looking at the spatial distribution of the finds recorded on the PAS database for Hampshire, Northamptonshire and the Isle of Wight. My aim is to identify all those factors come in between an object being lost or buried in the past, and it being recovered and recorded on the PAS database. A large part of my work involves understanding the interests and methods of detectorists, as you are responsible for recording over 80% of the artefacts that I am looking at. To this end, I have produced a questionnaire which looks at detecting habits and I would be really grateful if you would be willing to distribute it to the members of your club. It is an online questionnaire, and can be found at www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/896


Thank you for all your help over the past couple of years

All the best

Katherine Robbins

PhD Student
Archaeological Computing Research Group
University of Southampton
 

 

 

National newspaper journalist enquiry?
From: Adam (adam@mynewsagency.co.uk)

 
To: solentmdc@hotmail.com                Sent: 18 July 2010

Hi there,

       My name is Adam and I am a journalist working for M & Y Press Agency, a national newspaper agency based in Southsea. I am contacting because I am keen to find a metal detecting enthusiast who has amassed a vast collection of bric-a-brac and finds of all shapes and sizes for a story I am working on.

       Could you help? The individual would need to have amassed a really very extensive collection of the weird and wonderful…

       Hope you can help,

       Best,

       Adam                  adam@mynewsagency.co.uk

 

 

Don't forget the next club meeting!

 - on Wednesday the 8th February 2012

Meeting 7.30 for  8.00 pm start.

Please remember to bring your membership card to this meeting. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Sites available for detecting.

 January/February 2012

(Please Note:- You are reminded that, while on these sites,  membership cards must be carried at all times and shown on request.)

You must place your car badge in the window of your vehicle such that it can easily be read. This will indicate that you are a club member and will provide contact information should the land owner wish to contact you.

 

The land currently available for detecting is as follows:-

 

Every Wednesday at Site 3

Any Sunday until seeded:-  Site 6 ( Grass fields only )

  Any Sunday until seeded:-    Site 2

 

Date

Site available
15th January 2012      

       Site 4  ( Except where the crops are    too high )          

22nd January 2012     

       Site 1  

29th January 2012             Site 3
5th February 2012                  Site 5    ( Please do not detect on any   land that has been seeded )
   
 

Note:-

1) If you cannot identify these sites, please email me.  

2)  The list of club digs will be issued at the next meeting in the normal way