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>>55456136
I use a detector, but honestly my best finds have been found by combining research with my intuition or instinct while out exploring and then just digging or looking where I think good stuff is waiting. You'd want a detector for the metal artifacts along that roman road, but the "middens" or dumping areas the romans would have filled with nonmetallic artifacts like pottery and stone etc. often wouldn't be found with a detector that is blind to things over 1/2 a meter deep, so instead you'd need to dig test holes to look at the soil strata for promising evidence and then sift the good material through a sieve screen. I'd also look for spots in creeks and rivers where the conditions are right for the concentration of coins and metal artifacts, then dig and sift that material also.

And yes I do like hunting for and collecting fossils, I love the aesthetics of the naturally rounded "glacial" rocks that were dragged and worn down from hundreds of miles north (placer fossils kek) but have also found some special primary "lode" fossil deposits with rare early 300+ million year old vertebrate remains, much more desirable than the common bivalves and corals etc.

>>55058641
>rocks

We stack those too fren

>>54648398
>rock postan
yes

>>53944913
>The big tooth pictured is actually from a megalodon

Hell yeah very nice, we never found any intact ones but my dad bought a stunning 6.5" meg tooth back in the 90s, they've proven to be excellent investments. Here are a few of my personally found fossil corals including 5 halysites specimens, it depends on the matrix stone but the contrast on some is extraordinary, they're worth a decent bit for a rock as-is and would be truly stunning and more valuable cabbed and polished but I love the natural glacially-rounded look of them. When walking creekbeds and scanning thousands of rocks for patterns the chain corals really jump out and smack ya in the face, it's pretty thrilling to find them in the wild.