Listed below are my findings. I per-
formed this test in the All Metal mode
with a new set of batteries and with the
sensitivity set at 7.
Target ID Number Tone
Large bag seal 32 High
Toy cannon 36 High
Lead token 24 Medium
Small Roman silver 28 Medium
Small Roman bronze 16 Medium
Large Roman bronze 36 Medium
Gold sovereign 28 Medium
George III halfpenny 36 High
Half-ounce weight 36 High
James I hammered 24 Medium
Victoria shilling 40 High
Victoria penny 28 High
William III shilling 36 High
George III halfpenny 36 High
Crotal bell 32 High
By now it was half term and the
weather had improved. We at last had
blue sky but the biting cold wind was still
here. My six-year-old daughter Lily had
been pestering me for a day out by the
seaside, so this was a great opportunity
to try out the X-Terra 30 on sand. One of
my work colleagues lives in Rye in East
Sussex and he suggested we go to Cam-
ber Sands.Apparently it gets very busy in
the summer, so the chance to winkle out
a few coins from between the dunes and
keep my daughter happy at the same
time looked good.
It turned out that the day we picked
to go was one of the better days that we
had for a while with a lovely blue sky and
light breeze coming off the sea. As a
compromise I agreed only to do an
hour’s detecting. It was, after all, sup-
posed to be a family day out,so while my
wife and daughter went off to explore the
beach I got on with the task in hand.
Once again, I started off in the All
Metal Mode and - although the machine
was coping really well - I switched over
to Pattern 1, which meant I could blank
out the beer bottle caps, ring pulls, and
foil that was all over the place.
It was not long before I had about five
kids in tow and I felt like the Pied Piper
as I weaved my way along the beach.
Having the kids tag along was great but
stopping every few yards to answer a
question was using up my hour. How-
ever, shaking them off was not going to
be easy. The look on their faces when I
found my first coin after about 10 min-
utes was pure magic.
I have to say at this point that I would
not class myself as an expert beach
detectorist but the X-Terra 30 was mak-
ing it very easy indeed for me. The
Pattern 1 setting was working a treat and
after 30 minutes or so I was up £2.20 in
modern coins from a very small area of
the beach.
Working my way down to where I
could see my wife and daughter collect-
ing shells I managed to find another
£1.40, giving me a total of £3.60 in
spendable money. I felt that this was not
bad for an hour on a beach with a new
machine. Being able to reject the junk
was a great advantage and I know that if
I had spent another few hours detecting
I would have found a lot more coins.
The machine performed better than I
had expected in that it could seem to
handle wet sand. Even with the sensitiv-
ity set at 7 the X-Terra 30 seemed to be at
home on beach conditions.
Conclusion
If you are reading this and thinking
about buying a metal detector for the
first time, or if indeed you are simply
looking for a good back-up machine
then you should consider the X-Terra 30.
Before I started to do this field test
report I made my mind up that I was
going to be frank with the results, and if
there was something I did not like about
the machine I was going to express my
reason why I did not like it.
From the moment I started to use this
machine I felt confident with it, and to
me if you have confidence in your
machine it can only lead to better things.
Over the five weeks or so that I had
been using the machine my good finds
rate went up. I have to put this down to
the excellent discrimination ability of the
machine and its positive ID capabilities
(using tone and digital) against the old
A selection of the artefacts
found during the Field Test.
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