Part Two...
As a follow-up to part one, & what actually started me on this hunt for new equipment?
Well, as mentioned before, it started on a fossil hunt. After I safely removed a bellimite from the rock it had been hiding in for millions of years, “disaster struck” i then broke the bellimite. It was entirly my fault, I was wrestling with the zip on my backpack, which was still on my back, & instead of putting down the bellimite & taking off the backpack, which would have been the simplest & safest thing to do, i tried to open the backpack to put the fossil in, bad mistake, by twisting round, somehow, i broke the bellimite in my hand, & adding insult to injury the bags main zip broke when i bent down spilling its contents on the ground, so its back to square one on the equipment front…
Now I’ve decided to get a finds box ( the idea of a finds box is that these smaller, & more fragile fossils can be safely tucked away into this box and be transported safely to their new home… ), although i go metal detecting a lot more than fossiling, i do not own a dedicated finds box, I’ve never had a reason to buy these as my finds have not warrented it, so when looking around for a dedicated finds box it became a nasty shock to find that the prices of these 3Dprinted boxs were more expensive than finds pouches and even the smaller metal detector bags, & dont even ask my opinon of the cost of metal detecting gloves ?
I found the cheapest box was the wrong shape for my purpose, and more suited to its name as a coin pod, which was at Regtons for just under five pounds, with the coin pods creeping up in price until we get to the finds box price, obviously the Chinese finds boxes were cheaper, but a lot smaller, rising in price to about the fourteen pound mark for the size i wanted. Still, the hinges looked weak, and the clasps were not much better, with the lanyard fitting on these seeming a bit tight.
In contrast, the dedicated metal detector finds box seemed to have a decent plastic hinge with a metal rod running through, and one clasp, instead of the four clasps found on most of the cheaper items…
With the coin pod (-as with most other boxes-) you get an internal padded foam top (- but under the top foam on the coin pod box is a photo guage -) and with egg case foam on the bottom, plus it does seem to have a “handle type bar with a decent looking lanyard hole” which would hold the finds box attached via a curly & expanding lanyard, so with the coin pod on the plus side moving further ahead it looks like it’s going to have to be the “coin pod finds box”…
As for the total cost, this came out at an eye-watering £ 16.33p, broken down as £ 12.95p with £ 3.38p p.p…
North East Metal Detecting 
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