I live in Switzerland and I know an ancient forest where I go every year and pull out about 20kg of chanterelle and 10kg of toten trumpeten. These mushrooms come back every year, potentially for thousands of years.

One year I found a big piece of a clay cooking pan in the area where the chanterelles grow.

There are also tons of ravines, potential caves but I won't know until I climb down the ravines, but about 20 km away there are tourist caves where you can pay to enter them, part of the same ridge system.

I wanted to see if I could use a metal detector to find treasure, like in the article but it's illegal here. I suppose I could go in at night with the equipment but it's probably not worth it since while the Roman's were very active in Switzerland they weren't in this very specific region.

But still, where did the clay cooking pan come from?

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mycatisblack 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One of the projects I intend to make some day is a metal detector with 2 pickup coils(*), one in or around the sole of each shoe. Instead of an auditory signal, a vibrating element strapped to my leg or ankle. That way you can metaldetect difficult terrain/non-stop/inconspicuously.

(*) they each work independently, like two metaldetectors. Not the detector type with an RX and TX coil.

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mhb 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is a metal detector illegal?

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fnordian_slip 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Top stop people destroying the context, as laypeople can't (or won't even know about the need to) properly document the layers and non-metal finds around the metal. This makes dating a lot harder, and often destroys 90% of the scientific value of the find.

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pjc50 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To stop amateurs finding antiquities.

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timonoko 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or rather "what constitutes a metal detector"? I could have such double-resonating circuitry in my shoe connected to earplug via bluetooth.

"Officer, this equipment is for detecting needles in the Geneva playground".

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throw101010 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Ever heard of the principle of "good faith" in the context of the Swiss law (Article 2 of the Civil Code)?

Sometimes I think it was a prescient concept of our law makers and judiciary, many decades ago they knew they would have to deal with this kind of reddit-tier smartassery... if you have a device to detect metal, and you use it to detect metal, it is a metal detector, no judge will give you a pass because you thought you were very clever.

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timonoko 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can surgically insert tiny piece of magnet in your big toe. It is crazy good metal detector.

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nl 4 hours ago | parent [-]

As someone who worked on metal detectors I assure you this isn't true.

Actual metal detectors can detect gold a meter down through mineralized soil with metal scrap in between.

	▲	timonoko 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wasnt there somebody who did it with his finger? Results were so amazing that almost wanted to do the same. Except then you have to be very careful around powerful magnets.

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raverbashing an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Ever heard of the principle of "good faith" in the context of the Swiss law (Article 2 of the Civil Code)?

This is HN, most discussions around laws fail to consider the legal context and practices, especially as it relates to (in general) Europe

Instead, people here think you can "Bazinga" the law to a judge and that GDPR enforcement will drone them if their website don't have a popup.

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is_true 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can't you say you lost a ring or something?

Just cover holes properly. Please. With love, my ankles.

	▲	nkrisc 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does the law say it’s permitted if you lost a ring? That would be a useless law - everyone would be losing rings.