🇬🇧 METAL DETECTING ANCIENT UK WATERWAYS /// My first attempt at rivers, streams and creeks 💦 🐸 🍄
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- 🇬🇧Join my UK metal detecting adventure in this magical, dripping place as I investigate an ancient crossing ford. This stunning permission borders mysterious Dartmoor, dotted with Neolithic and Bronze Age sites, a medieval drover’s path, a Victorian clayworks and granite walls built by Napoleonic prisoners of war. So much history here. I experiment with detecting in freshwater using my DEUS II.
In this video find out:
what equipment I use for freshwater detecting
what settings I tried on my machine and which worked best
a surprisingly effective piece of kit from my kitchen drawer
the challenges of working in running water
finds that taught me something about my machine
I hope you enjoy the video. If you did, you can support my channel by doing all the usual things, like subscribe to keep me going and leave a comment!
IN THE COMMENTS - I want to know your best water find. Share your tips for detecting in watery places!
Come along metal detecting with me at my DARTMOOR PERMISSION, as I enjoy a summer detecting session in the English countryside. I’m continuing my exploration of this fascinating new UK permission and getting to know the land through my finds…
My usual mix of history, nature, outdoors and searching. 😊
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A bit about me:
Not your average bloke in camo..
Hello! I’m Ellie, English female detectorist, beachcomber, mudlark and artist. 🇬🇧 Follow my searching journey metal detecting the UK countryside and shoreline, as I learn about British history through objects.
Have I found any treasure? Well - in my first year of detecting I have collected Roman artefacts, old gold, hammered coins and medieval finds. But the REAL treasure is in the stories each object tells about people and places. Sometimes it’s the mystery objects that I love best - cracking the code of time with plenty of help from my team of trusty subscribers!
Miss D.
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What a beautiful place! On the bright side, you weren't dealing with a lot of modern trash, so there's that. :) We have lots of streams and rivers where I live, but none are as pristine as the one you just detected.
Stunning environment and you have tried something different which is superb to see
Cheers - I thought I’d change it up as the grass is so long everywhere!
Great video really enjoyed watching keep following x
Informative and different, well done
Cheers! Thanks for watching 🙂
Beautiful place and well done for trying, lovely video in a lovely part of the country,well done
Thank you very much! I'll keep trying till I find something decent!
I'm sound sensitive but the sound of waves, rain and streams is stimming for me
Another absolutely stunning location, truly magical, with all the moss and lichens and ferns, wish i was there, thanks for another brilliant video.
Isn’t it magic! Just drips with history and atmosphere everywhere … thanks for watching and for your lovely comment 😊
Hi Ellie I’ve just subscribed great channel love ❤️ your content very interesting, keep it coming 🙂👍🏻💯
Thanks for this lovely feedback - so glad you found the channel - lots to catch up on and more to come!! Recommend my Project: Roman Fields playlist start to finish! (Or at least… the story so far!)
Absolutely stunning location! I think it could be one of those enchanted sites where you first need to gift an appropriate offering or recite a particular rhyme to the water spirits before they will give up their treasures for you! 🧚
Lovely area for sure. I have access to a wide river where there was a ford for centuries. I think you did well considering - it is an absolute pain detecting in water! I have never found anything valuable - I suspect older stuff will be far too deep now. But there must be something worth finding somewhere near. Maybe when I retire I will try again. 🙂 Suggestion: take a jemmy with you for levering heavier rocks out of the way.
Really good tip! Starting to think I need a pack horse for my water detecting sessions 😂😊
Very peaceful surroundings thanks for the adventure. Al, NJ, USA
Glad you enjoyed it thank you so much for the watch!
New subscriber to your wonderful channel! What a great metal detecting adventure. I look forward to watching your other videos.
So glad you found me, thank you for subscribing!
Great job 🎉 You did an excellent job bringing the audience into that unbelievable environment !! General works better in moist soil btw. Great hunt ! See ya on Friday !
Thanks Brian - very fun day out and first try at a few things. Results yet to come but we’ll get there!
What a gorgeous area, thanks for the video 😊
It really is! Thank you for watching!
lovely place, very magical.
It really is, it has a ‘feel’, you know?
Lovely area of uk 😊 nicely done vid 👌
Thanks a lot for watching along!
What a magical woodland. I kept looking for a gnome or fairy to skitter through the background. The sound of the water is my favorite part of detecting a stream. My most common finds river detecting are lead fishing weights and bullets but occasionally I’ll find something great like a silver coin or antique jewelry piece. Of course there are modern finds too but I’m only interested in the older artifacts. Congratulations on your first time in the water. You’ll be a pro in no time!
Thank you for the vote of confidence, finding something old is always my goal too.I will keep trying till I do!
Hi great video, you need to get a pair of rubber waders if your in water, stick at it your start to find stuff stay safe cheers si
I probably do although it wasn’t more that six inches or so with the summer levels!
I have many streams and creeks nearby, I’ll have to go now and detect them, you inspired me now, thanks ❤
Give it a go! Let us know how you get on!
Worth a try detecting streams I have tried it myself it’s very hard going compared with fields. Thank you Ellie
You're spot on - logistics of working in water are so tough but it was worth the adventure and hope to try it again soon...already got a few ideas how I'd do it differently next time
You done great love. I learnt it all on the job too and a 100 rivers later I've learnt so much.. any help or advice give me a shout. But you're doing just fine.. water detecting is the best by a mile
It was a really enjoyable experiment! I will keep practising and who knows...someday something great might come my way!
Great job on the Southern Relic Adventures Livestream! Followed you on IG but just subbed your YT channel.
Hello 👋 thanks for the sub and for the welcome to the live chat yesterday evening - such fun!
Such an atmospheric place to just enjoy with the added bonus of the excitement of detecting. Don't worry about the lack of finds because the possibilities in that area are good. There has to be some relics about it just takes time and understanding the area, which you're doing. The fungi was beautiful too. Looking forward to the next adventure.
There has to be relics! 😊
love watching your videos, looks like you had a fun day 😃
Really fun! Thanks for watching
Hiya great video very interesting have never been detecting before but we have such a diverse history in the UK it's absolutely amazing what you could find have subscribed now looking forward to watching your adventures ❤
@@marciabaldwin2506 how lovely to welcome you! Thanks for watching and I’m sorry you started with a video where I found… absolutely nothing of note! If you check in my playlists I recommend the Project: Roman fields collection of vids, where you can start with the oldest video and watch me find some incredible history right under our feet! You’re so right about diverse history here - how lucky we are.
@miss_detectorist you found pleasure and joy doing something you like too do in peaceful surroundings and the fresh air of dartmoor anything that could of been there not made of metal would or could of vanished. Will check our your playlist.👍
“What if there’s a troll?” 😂 Great video, thanks Ellie, really enjoyed that - it looks beautiful there. I am going to give it a go on my permission with a river running through it not far from an Iron Age hut circle settlement. Looking forward to seeing what you find in the water by the Roman Fields 😁
Oo good luck! Watch out for trolls ..
@@miss_detectorist 😂 You make me laugh. Thank you, not sure there are any bridges for trolls to hide under, it’s a new permission so haven’t been yet but I know there are otters there and they are my favourite animal so hoping to see some 🦦😁
That brown tinged water is called 'brackish water' and is indeed coloured by the peat the water percolated through. Your first bridge with the stone on top is called a 'Clapper Bridge' and there are some big ones on Dartmoor. There is one 42 foot one at Postbridge and another small one at Dartmeet. Your best find was at 8:45, a bed of fresh Watercress! It grows in clean, swift flowing water. Pick a piece and try it. In water, I use my spade as a walking staff. If you detect beaches, drag your spade behind you and it leaves a trail of where you have been. Nice video, I am still on catchup. 🙂
I love watercress so much - I think I have been slightly put off picking it wild due to parasites in the streams near where sheep have grazed - but there aren’t any sheep here so will pick next time 🙂🙂
@@miss_detectorist
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When hunting creeks I take the same few tools I use to gold pan. A strong round tip long handled garden shovel, a crevicing tool for bedrock cracks, a gold pan to dump shovel loads in. The shovel can be used to get leverage between stuck river rocks to break them loose so they can be moved, Takes some muscle sometimes but if you keep prying and wiggling they eventually loosen up to move. If the shovel isn't stout enough and might break then you need a long steel pry bar to work the boulders loose. Best to only work in areas where the bedrock or false clay layer bedrock is shallow because good finds don't seek bellow easy detection depth and are easier and quicker to recover. Enjoyed watching your hunt and good luck. I've found some really good stuff in shallow bedrock crevices.
Thank you for all these tips!
I'm sorry you didn't find coins or relics, but showing us somewhere so tranquil & mysterious is priceless treasure to me.
I look forward to your next adventure. Thank you, Ellie. 🙏
Not this time - but I guess that's makes the prize all the sweeter when it (eventually) turns up!
What a peaceful and enchanted location, great place to relax for a few hours, take in the gentle rustle of the creek, the breeze in the trees. The searching is almost as good as the finds. Hope next search brings you a few treasures to show for your efforts. When gold prospecting in Victoria, Australia we use to walk kilometers along creeks to find a location that we thought nobody had been to for ages, whether we were right or not.
That’s quite the dedication, and hopefully removes at least some of the modern stuff!
Great vid, next time u are in plymouth way id love to come detecting, ive got a deus, but complete newbie.. definitely subscribed. 🎉
What a magical location, it looks like it was good for your soul, and money can’t buy that.
I’m very much a beginner. My metal detector only says whether something of metal is there, so I have to dig everything, so I’m a long way off your stage.
But it’s the tranquility of the hunt for history, the learning curve of understanding, not only of the finds, but the terrain around us.
I’m very much loving your videos, I’m learning lots.
I am now wondering if ordering my sand scoop for my first beach detect next week, was a smart idea and perhaps I should of just gone and grabbed my roast carving fork out of my kitchen drawer 🤔 ☺️
Haha well the kitchen drawer can be a surprising source of good stuff! But I think you'll be glad of your sand scoop and hope you find something great!
Beautiful place to hunt!
Metal detector your digging Trowell and travel light as possible.. back pack with a drink and food is all i carry and a pair of gloves. Im dying to get back in the water now haha
Haha go for it! I’m sure you’ll be much more streamlined with your kit than me 😅
Fantastic video. I have often thought about detecting streams 👍🏻 You could maybe take a magnet on the end of a pole ?
I could do! I have a magnet on a rope, for magnet fishing, but I'm not too bothered about finding iron and sadly the good stuff doesn't stick to magnets! I haven't tried magnet fishing yet. Another one on my list!
Well done for a first try.That was quite a large piece of led which is a good sign of old human activity in the area.
Thank you I hadn’t really thought about the size but you’re right, it is quite a chunky piece!
Great Video, thank you for sharin.
Well thank you sir for watchin’!
I use a very bright hand held torch while in the river. It makes the world of difference
Great tip!
So love your enthusiasm so love your videos ❤
That is so kind thank you for your positive comment!
Great video get yourself a minelab x
I’d happily try all the makes and models if I had endless funds!
Looks like the movie set for Avatar or Lord of the rings !. Those ancient people were not daft and realised the great importance of water for all their needs so is understandable they would give offerings in the hope it may continue.
Glad you enjoyed the whole exsperience😉
Its an incredible landscape! 🍃✨
cool 👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Good effort Miss D! I have a similar sized stream running though my permiission, parallel to and around 200m from a major Roman road, and never found anything worthwhile in it! It cuts through woodland and id crossed by a bridge so is full of recent trash and shotties. I tihnk the old stuff is much deeper, out of range of my detector but surely must be down there. Perhaps one of those deep-searching detectors like the XP Xtrem Hunter would be worth a try.
Another programme I’m going to try is Deep HC - next time!
What an enchanting site. I half thought you might have run into Samwise Gamgee there.
It really feels like that there! ✨
Oh boy. Miss Ellie and a new adventure over morning coffee.
I've always thought wooded areas around roman occupation would be good spots. A soldier plunders treasure. Goes into to woods and buries his boots expecting to return. Only to be slain in another battle. Whimsical I suppose. Glad a troll didn't carry you off.
Yes - of course wooded areas now may not have been wooded then .. it’s a tale of changing places and forgotten stories!
Thank you Miss,I really like that place, very cold and wet looking though, but you look like you had a good time so that's all that matters for now.when I was a child I used to love a paddle in the countryside of England although a lot of kids used to always scare us with, "watch out for the toe biters," but we didn't ever see anything but a few gudgeon fish.
@@nolarino what a lovely story! I think I’ve been damaged by stories of trolls… 😂
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It's part of a shotgun cartridge base, not a battery. You can see the off-centre dent where the firing pin hit.
Aha! Thanks!
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Good Good Ellie 🤩🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thanks Greg! 😊
keep digging is the deus II a gd machine
It sure is! I’ve found some wonderful things so far 😊😊
your battery is the remains of a shotgun cartridge. the little dent in the end is the firing pin mark showing it was used/discharged
Thank you! Definitely filed under ‘crap finds’ BUT it does prove my method is working at least! Onwards and upwards!
general ..for damp wet conditions
Well done Miss D - The lump of lead is interesting - smelted?
Haven’t really looked at it but will take a look this afternoon!
It looked very mysterious by the woods, and the creek. When you are looking for objects in a creek, you have to look at the corners where the creek changes direction, or against large stones. Think to yourself, would an object be able to change direction easily? Usually it will not, and be stuck against a stone, or in a corner. Practice makes perfect.
Think like an object - I like your way of looking at it! How do you check in the cracks under boulders if you can’t get your detector in there 🤔 good ideas here will try next time
@@miss_detectorist Sometimes, you just have to use the pinpointer, and get as close as you can. If the boulder is too large, you won't be able to move it anyway. You just have to do the best that you can to get close.
Very real, in that you’re turning up stuff that we all do at least 99% of the time!! And because I am very old I hope I am allowed to say that it is also a pleasure to watch you because of your very pretty face. Just saying 😊
I've metal detected a couple of stream only found shot gun ends,cans,and part of a gun best of luck on your next place
Got to keep trying, haven’t we!
Hi, I noticed that you didn't have the antenna attached. Is that because you didn't intend to submerge the coil?
Hi Peter. I didn't take it as didn't intend to submerge the remote, I need to do a bit more research to work out exactly when the antenna is used. I had understood from asking around that its good in shallows with just the coil submerged.. better get the manual out and have a little read!
@@miss_detectorist It's probably best to have the antenna attached because you won't know if target signals, picked up by the coil, aren't being transmitted to the control box and headphones. I've only done a bit of stream detecting, so I'm no expert but it seems prudent.
Good place for a treasure
It should be…!
yes, Ellie @@miss_detectorist
This is how I got into mudlarking and Riverlarking the streams. I've had viking axe heads to bullets and part of a shotgun. To everything in-between.. my mental health goes away when I've had a day in the waders 💪💪 go slow I've noticed your swinging too fast for rivers as well. Only thing you need to change as I've been watching 💪💪
Ok good tip thank you!
I bet that was hard work compared to a field.
@@rickymitrickymit it really was - it was the bog that nearly tipped me over the edge!
I just watch this video detecting in the river or streams it looks like like you were struggling to find targets . 1 a small hand garden rake would help remove the gravel or 2 you could use a Henderson hand pump to suck up the gravel which I would use a garden riddle or classifier into a bucket 3 I suggest you watch videos of gold panners to get better ideas I felt sorry for you I just wanted to jump in and give you a hand
Haha don’t worry I get my fair share of targets! It’s a very quiet place but I am still hopeful that someday I’ll find something really good there 😊👍🏻
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