This week the wonderful Sam AKA Samuel Bleeps joined me for a chat where we discussed all things metal detecting. Listen to hear all about Sam’s history in the hobby, his great decision to go down an old footpath not yet explored as well as a chance meeting with Garfield the cat!

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On this weeks midweek extra's episode we once again have the wonderful Darren Booth AKA History Unearthed. Darren will be talking us through his perfect detecting day followed by a quick explanation of what the item placed on the Ultimate Bucketlister List by Darren is, a Pilgrim's Ampulla!

If you want to listen to Darren's main episode again scroll back to the episode on the 12th of September.

Enjoy!

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For this weeks episode we have the lovely Sophie AKA Girl that digs. Sophie hasn’t been in the hobby too long but already has found some amazing artefacts and coins as well as her detecting community! Join us as Sophie retells the stories behind some of her most treasured finds, hear about her strangest finds and the trouble with robotic garden lawnmowers! 

Enjoy!

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For this weeks extras episode we have our wonderful guest, Digger Dawn, find the main episode with Dawn from the 3rd of September.

Dawn tells us about her perfect detecting day, including some top crisp flavour tips. This is swiftly followed in part 2 with me going into more detail on the history of Dawn's item placed on the Ultimate Bucketlister List, a gold and ruby/red garnet Saxon cross!

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On this weeks episode I’m joined by the lovely Buffy Winship Bailey.

Buffy talks to us about how metal detecting is good for our health and how it is helping her deal with PTSD caused by her experiences working as a NHS nurse during the pandemic. She also shares with us what happened on the day she found her best find, a gold book charm thought to have been on the end of a silk bookmark that possibly belonged to a member of King Richard the thirds household! Enjoy!

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SURPRISE! We are now bringing you TWO episodes a week!

For our first extras episode we have our wonderful guest, The Grim Bleeper, telling us about his perfect detecting day, along with some helpful toilet hints from Holly and myself for the females detectorists.

This is swiftly followed in part 2 by going into more detail on the history of the first item placed on the bucketlister list by grim, a gold Julius Caesar Aureus coin, enjoy!

You can find more of The Grim Bleeper here:

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@THEGRIMBLEEPER

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_grim_bleeper/

Tiktok: https://www.youtube.com/c/THEGRIMBLEEPER

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How exciting! Our first Magnet Fisherperson on the podcast!

This week we have the brilliant Gary AKA Magnet Fishing Menace telling us all about his love for magnet fishing, his best finds, weirdest finds and favourite history era. Gary is also a beginner in metal detecting so you get two hobbies for the price of one in this episode!

You can find Gary via his brilliant Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/magnet_fishing_menace/

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This was such a great interview! Karl AKA the Mental detector tells us all about his metal detecting history, including an inspirational Great Aunty who had a mega find!

Karl also talks to us about the very important work he does with a non-profit mental health charity he co-founded called We are Hummingbird as well as a new mental health campaign called Circle of Four, please check out those websites, all links are below.

We are Hummingbird: https://www.wearehummingbird.com/

Circle of Four: https://www.circleoffour.org/

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Wow, Paddy is such an impressive young person. His passion for history and metal detecting is addictive! In such a short few years Paddy has had some amazing success, listen to hear all about the famous Bronze Age ribbon gold that nearly ended up in the bin!

Paddy has a fascinating youtube channel where all the fabulous finds are documented so go check out his Paddy Detects channel.

This episode is dedicated to Gordon, who got Paddy and his family into metal detecting to begin with, who was sadly lost at the beginning of the year.

You can find Paddy at these places:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@paddydetects

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paddy_detects/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@paddy_detects?lang=en

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This week we are joined by Ronan AKA Detecting North Wales.

Ronan hasn't been in the hobby too long but wowzer! What a load of amazing bucketlister finds he's already found!

Tune in to hear all about their discoveries so far as well as some spoon madness and the latest addition to the Ultimate Bucket Lister List.

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Until next time!

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