DAVID VILLANUEVA TREASURE HUNTER AND AUTHOR
HOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR TREASURE FINDS RATE BY TWENTY-FIVE TIMES OR
MORE
Obviously you would like to increase your treasure finds rate. I
know I do. But how do you actually do that? Well let's start by
looking at the equipment you are using.
If you are serious about treasure hunting, you probably have a metal
detector or are thinking about buying one. But with over 150 models to
chose from, which one is best? Which one will make the most finds? If
any one model stood out, wouldn't we all be using it? While some
machines clearly excel on certain types of site, overall there
probably isn't more than a few percent to gain or lose on performance
between models, once you get away from the low priced 'toy' range. You
would be hard pushed to try out all the models available and
frequently swapping from one model to another could not only prove
very expensive but would undoubtedly reduce your finds rate, for maybe
six months, until you become used to the machine.
Using a pair of good quality headphones always helps. You will hear
fainter signals and at the same time, cut out distracting noise from
your surroundings.
Then you could look at coil or search-head types and sizes.
Wide-scan coils cover ground faster than concentric but at a loss of
overall depth. A larger diameter coil will also cover ground faster
while detecting deeper but it will find more larger-sized objects at
the expense of smaller objects and a smaller diameter coil works the
other way around.. You pay your money and take your choice.
So what about time spent searching. It has to be true that the more
hours you put in, the more treasure you will find. But there are only
24 hours in the day and 168 hours in the week. You have to sleep
sometime! Go out treasure hunting regularly if you can, this will keep
you in practice and you will find more than if you go on a marathon
session occasionally.
Let's look at search methods then. We'll assume you have a site to
search, 69 yards wide by 70 yards long. That's roughly one acre.
Buried in the site are five treasures within detection range, each
marked with a cross.
You could do a systematic search with a metal detector, covering
every square inch. If your overlapping search sweep averages 1.5 yards
then you would need to cross the site 46 times and walk nearly two
miles. It would take a few hours, however you would get 100% of the
treasure finds.
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH: 100% OF THE TIME FOR 100% OF THE TREASURE
Some treasure hunters or metal detectorists like to perform a random
search.
RANDOM SEARCH: 20% OF THE TIME FOR 20% OF THE TREASURE (ON AVERAGE)
On the basis of your results, if you then decide to do a systematic
search, you will spend 120% OF THE TIME FOR 100% OF THE FINDS, so best
decide as early as possible to swap from a random search to a
systematic one. If you are unlucky and miss all of the treasure on a
random search, do you then write the site off as unproductive?
Or you could use an ANCIENT FREE TECHNOLOGY to do this:
20% OF THE TIME FOR 100% OF THE FINDS (conservative estimate)
Clearly you could cover five times more sites in the time in takes
to systematically search one site. YOU SHOULD MAKE AT LEAST FIVE TIMES
MORE FINDS.
Okay, let's look at how you chose that site in the first place. Did
it just come along or did you find it by research? Research will
certainly put you in the right ballpark; maybe the plot next to the
one containing the treasure, maybe the one with the treasure in
itself. But you won't know until you get out there, search the site
thoroughly and dig the treasure up.
Unless you use the same ANCIENT FREE TECHNOLOGY TO DISCOVER EXACTLY
WHERE THE TREASURE IS (OR ISN\'T), WHAT IT CONSISTS OF, HOW DEEP IT IS
BURIED AND ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO KNOW -- WITHOUT LEAVING HOME AND
WITHOUT ASKING ANYONE\'S PERMISSION. You need never search a barren
site again. This is not quite so easy to quantify as the search
technique but by my reckoning this will generate at least ANOTHER FIVE
TIMES MORE FINDS. And much more if some of those treasures are caches.
So, just to recap, if you get five times more finds from the search
method and five times more finds from site selection the two together
will give you TWENTY-FIVE TIMES MORE FINDS.
Here's how it worked for me. Using the UK Treasure Act's definition
where treasure is basically precious metal single artifacts or coin
caches over 300 years old, I found one solitary treasure in 25 years
before being taught, by a guy called Jim Longton, how to use an
ancient free technology to find treasure. That was eight years ago and
since then I have had eight treasure finds. Going from one find in
twenty-five years to one find every year is an increase in finds rate
of TWENTY-FIVE TIMES. However, two of the treasure finds were gold
coin caches so the actual object find rate increased FORTY TIMES. And
of course, my lesser but nevertheless interesting and often valuable
finds have multiplied by a similar amount.
147: MEDIEVAL SILVER-GILT BROOCH. FINDER: MR. D VILLANUEVA. TREASURE
ANNUAL REPORT 1998 - 1999
261: 7 IRON AGE GALLO-BELGIC E GOLD STATERS. FINDERS: MRS. C A SMITH
AND MR. D VILLANUEVA. TREASURE ANNUAL REPORT 1998 - 1999
226: 2 IRON AGE GALLO-BELGIC E GOLD STATERS. FINDERS: MRS. C A SMITH
AND MR. D VILLANUEVA. TREASURE ANNUAL REPORT 2000
104: MEDIEVAL GOLD FINGER-RING. FINDER: MR. D VILLANUEVA. TREASURE
ANNUAL REPORT 2002
(A ROMAN SILVER AND GOLD FINGER-RING; A SAXON 6TH C. GOLD PENDANT; A
17TH C. GOLD MOURNING RING, HAVE YET TO BE CATALOGUED AND I FOUND A
SILVER TUDOR DRESS FASTENER BEFORE THE TREASURE ACT)
A QUARTER STATER OF EPPILUS...FOUND BY DAVID VILLANUEVA...THE ONLY
GOLD FIND WE HAD FROM THE SITE (APART FROM A MODERN RING WHICH DAVID
ALSO FOUND). DR. RICHARD HOBBS (REPORTING ON A ONE-WEEK METAL DETECTOR
SURVEY INVOLVING OVER A DOZEN PARTICIPANTS)
I used to watch in admiration as others won trophies at my treasure
hunting club but now I have to keep a shelf free to house all the
trophies I keep winning.
"DAVID VILLANUEVA TOOK HOME ALL THE TROPHIES FROM THE FINDS OF THE
YEAR COMPETITION (THE SECOND TIME THAT HE HAS DONE THIS)." PETE
CLARKE, CHAIRMAN, SWALE SEARCH SEEK, AND YE SHALL FIND; KNOCK, AND IT
SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. FOR EVERY ONE THAT ASKETH RECEIVETH; AND HE
THAT SEEKETH FINDETH; AND TO HIM THAT KNOCKETH IT SHALL BE OPENED."
LUKE 11: 9-10
"I BELIEVE THE FACT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE DO BELIEVE IN DOWSING, AND
THAT SO MUCH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED USING THE TECHNIQUE,
WARRANTS A LITTLE INVESTIGATION." BRIAN GROVE, THE TREASURE HUNTER\'S
HANDBOOK, (LONDON, 2005)
"MANY OF YOU DON\'T REALIZE YET THAT YOU ARE THE BEST SENSOR OF ALL
AND THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FINE TUNE YOURSELF IN ORDER TO BE
SUCCESSFUL." LOUIS MATACIA, FINDING TREASURE COMBINING SCIENCE AND
PARAPSYCHOLOGY, (BLUEMONT VIRGINIA, 1997)
"THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH HORATIO THAN ARE DREAMT
OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY." HAMLET 1:5
"EITHER YOU BELIEVE IN IT - OR YOU DON\'T - BUT THERE IS NO HARM IN
TRYING IT. IT DOES SEEM TO WORK FOR SOME PEOPLE." REGTON, METAL
DETECTION SPECIALISTS
You may not know that SAVVY TREASURE HUNTERS HAVE BEEN QUIETLY
PROFITING from dowsing for centuries:
Dowsing has been recorded since the time of Moses, for the story of
Aaron producing water from the rock (Exodus chapter 17, verse 6) is
often quoted as the first written evidence. Even if we dismiss the
Biblical claim, dowsers appear engraved on ancient Egyptian stonework
and on the statue of a Chinese emperor dating circa 2200BC. Little
else of dowsing is recorded until Agricola, in 1556, wrote _De Re
Metallica, _a composition on mining which included an illustration of
a German dowser at work.
Almost a hundred years after Agricola, Martine de Bertereau,
Baroness de Beausoleil travelled Europe, with her husband, locating
mineral deposits by dowsing. They discovered over 150 ore deposits of
iron, gold and silver in France alone, before being imprisoned for
practising the 'black arts'. Later, in the same century, a
particularly interesting book was written by Jean Nicholas de Grenoble
published in Lyon in 1691 under the title of _La Verge de Jacob or
L'arte de Trouver les Tresors, Les Sources, les Limites, les Metaux,
les Mines, les Mineraux et autres choses caches par L'usage du Baton
fourche. _(The Rod of Jacob or the art of finding treasure, springs,
boundaries, metals, mines, minerals and other hidden things, by the
use of the forked twig)._ _Dowsing then seems to have sunk back into
obscurity, although, undoubtedly it continued to be practised, at
least for finding of water - the lifeblood of all living things -
practised in secrecy, perhaps, because of its occult associations and
the Church's condemnation as the work of the devil.
Victorian scientific interest aided by a softening of the Church's
attitude brought dowsing out into the open. In 1874, Thomas Welton
translated and published Jean Nicholas' book in English. During the
following decades a number of respected men, including the physicist,
Albert Einstein, performed impressive feats with a variety of dowsing
devices. Most of these feats were only of academic value but by the
middle of the 20th century dowsing was regularly being put to a great
variety of profitable uses.
Farmer_ _J_ _W Young convinced wild-catter, Ace Gutowski, that oil
lay beneath West Edmond, Oklahoma by demonstration with a
goatskin-covered bottle hung from a watch chain which invariably swung
from north to south when over oil. As a result, in 1943, Gutowski
drilled a hole and discovered the largest oil deposit in Oklahoma for
20 years. And that is just one of very many examples of oil strikes by
dowsers.
Colonel Harry Grattan, CBE, Royal Engineers was given the task of
building a new Headquarters for the British Rhine Army at Monchen
Gladbach, Germany in 1952. Planning for at least 9000 people who would
need 750,000 gallons of water per day was a major project. Water
supply was a big problem. Notwithstanding that the British Army
preferred the security of it's own water supply, the three local
waterworks would have had to upgrade their equipment and pass the
costs on in the form of water rates at
