Crown estate map shows that both ends of Chesil beach seem to be OK and within their permit system http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/199755/metal-south.pdf
Good luck!
All I can say is that the E-trac often takes more than one pass over an object to give the "right" numbers, although I've found that the sound is always accurate.
I'll sometimes have a half decent...
I think Chesil beach and The Fleet (lagoon) are an SSSI. http://www.english-nature.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1002654.pdf
So you'd need to stay outside the scheduled area.
I think it's...
Welcome. Minelab machines are pretty good out of the box. As you get confident try using less discrimination and higher sensitivity.
EDIT I agree, try the muppet thing for a while
My own story of shame involves a very large galvanised bucket and a rather primitive detector. I needed to disturb the grass as little as possible so dug straight down with a long handled trowel. I...
I've had cheap Argos specials coming in with those sort of numbers, they can often be quite fragile after a while in the sea. Very distinctive signals.
I'm not surprised, it's sparsely populated in many areas and the last thing on their minds would have been to do a bit of tidying up on their way to Berlin.
I'm a bit torn really, not entirely...
Should be OK, The e-trac works fine under power lines, it does pick them up but even at its worse you can carry on detecting with the occasional "noise cancel" when it gets noisy.
A very quick alternative, put them in a saucer of Viakal limescale remover, take them out and rinse them as soon as they change colour, this could be just a couple of seconds, then a quick rub with...
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