Before you use the CTX 3030's features like WayPoints,
FindPoints and GeoHunt,
you have to enable the GPS system.
To do that, we press Menu.
And then scroll across to Options.
Scroll down to GPS and press the Menu button.
The first option there is the GPS.
If you press it once you'll switch on GPS
and that's the standard GPS system.
If you press it a second time you go into Enhanced.
I prefer Enhanced in this country.
So that's what we're going to select.
OK, press the Detect button.
Up in the top corner you'll see a little satellite flashing.
Once that satellite stops flashing and stays solid,
then you know that it has acquired a GPS reading.
There we go. All done.
Press the Detect button and the CTX 3030 is now GPS enabled
and we're ready to search and record exactly what we're doing.
So that's it. Great feature. Let's get going.
So now I've shown you all the basics about XChange2 software.
I've shown you how to use the CTX 3030
and all the functions, menus etc
Let's really put it all together now and I want to show you
how I use all of this to find myself a lot more stuff.
Basically, what I'm going to do is explore the Google Maps
within the XChange2 software.
I'm going to find an area I want to search
and then I'm going to drag a WayPoint onto that area
and then we'll go metal detecting.
We'll walk to that spot and search and see if we can find something.
So first, what I do is I literally drag the Google Maps menu
looking around, and I'm looking for areas like this,
which is probably a pit or something.
But we'll keep dragging around, keep dragging around.
There's an interesting crop mark there, a circular mark.
I zoom in slightly. There's what we call a ring ditch.
Now, these ring ditches are prehistoric houses.
Some of them are Stone Age with no metal finds
but if you're really lucky you can find one from the Iron Age period,
where there are lots of things including coins.
So this is where we're going to search.
All I do is drag the WayPoint into the centre of the ring ditch.
It's then prompting me to save it into a collection.
This opens up the WayPoint menu and I simply type in -
we're going to call this "ring ditch".
Question mark.
I can add a description, but I don't need to in this case,
and save.
Now it's time to connect the CTX 3030 to the computer
so we can transfer that WayPoint.
So we plug the USB lead into the computer at one end,
we undo the waterproof cap
and connect the USB lead to the CTX 3030.
And then we switch on the detector.
Once the connection is made you'll get confirmation.
And you'll see the CTX 3030 will appear just above the All
on the left-hand red pane.
Now, simply find the WayPoint that we saved in that collection
And drag it onto the CTX 3030 icon and you'll get confirmation
that the upload has been successful.
And once that's all done, you simply unplug the USB lead
from the back of the pod of the CTX 3030.
The detector then updates.
So just to recap exactly what I've just done.
While looking at Google Maps, which is within XChange2 software,
I've seen an area that I'm very interested in and I want to search.
So I've dragged the WayPoint tool onto the middle of that area.
I've then named the WayPoint.
I've connected the USB lead to the CTX 3030
and I've uploaded the WayPoint onto the detector.
So everything that I've done on XChange2 is now in the detector.
I can now go to the field, switch on the metal detector
load that WayPoint and walk straight to that point.
So here we are at the field and the very first thing I need to do
is put the new program in that I downloaded off the internet.
The settings are automatically loaded
once you put them on the detector but the mode we need to add.
We press Menu and we go down from Modes, past Coins, Beach, Relics
Silver, High Trash and there's our Tadpole program
that we downloaded and put onto this detector.
So we click the Menu button, select it and that's it.
It's all fully loaded.
The next thing we need to do is to switch on the GPS feature.
So quickly go across to Options, down to GPS
and then select GPS, go from Off to On.
We need to add a little widget on the displays
so we can actually see how far away we are
from that WayPoint that we loaded.
So I'm going to go down to the Map screen,
and Navigational Tool
There it is. I want to put a little tick in the box
and you do that with the Menu button.
Back to the Detect Screen and we'll do the same there - tick the box.
Switch the navigation tool on.
So you go across to the GeoStore.
Scroll down to WayPoints.
And the first option is called Distance, so we click Distance.
This brings up all the WayPoints we've got in there.
We select the WayPoint that we want, which is the "ring ditch?"
and then we press the Menu button
and the very first of those selections is called Go To.
So we pick Go To, and there we are.
We're back onto the map and the little widget tool says it - wow!
We've got a long walk to go.
A couple more things we're going to do on the Map screen.
We're going to add the View GeoTrail.
And before we set off, just so we can start this GeoHunt,
we're now going to press and hold the Store button
and press Record.
So now those last two things that we did.
We did the View GeoTrail. What that is -
everywhere I walk now there'll be like breadcrumbs behind me.
So I'll be able to see every part of the actual land I cover.
And the Record GeoHunt means that when I get home,
everything that we do today I can load it on a computer
so I can see exactly where I've been, where I found things,
and that's very useful because sometimes you might miss somewhere
and you'll be able to see that and that could be very important.
So that's it. The detector's up and running. OK, let's get detecting.
OK, that's zero, so we're right on the spot
and the ditch is all around us so let's start detecting.
OK, found something.
This is really interesting. This looks like it's a face.
A human head.
So definitely one worth recording the find spot.
So now I press the GeoStore button
and it's FP001.
One of the things I like doing is put them in a bag
and record it directly to the actual FindPoint
so this is FP01.
So what I'm going to do
is write on here FP001.
And I reckon this could be Iron Age.
This actually could be something really interesting.
So pop it in a bag. That's all I have to do
because I've recorded the actual FindPoint on the detector
and that's going to have the grid reference and everything.
As long as I can tie up in the bag exactly what it is
then job done.
Fill the hole carefully.
That looks like something. That looks like the horns off something.
FindPoint.
006.
And save.
That's a good hunt. I've got six interesting finds.
One of them is very, very interesting
and that's the face that I found first of all.
These weird rings. I've found three of these weird rings.
Anyway, I want to get home and clean all these up
and actually see what they are.
But it's a successful hunt.
We saw the crop mark on the field. We walked to the spot.
And we got six items.
They might not be Iron Age but one of them definitely does look it.
Before we actually switch the detector off,
we must remember to end our GeoHunt.
So you press and hold the Store button
and then move down to Stop and then press the Menu button.
And it'll actually come up and say "GeoHunt saved".
And we've saved it. So that's it.
Let's get home and clean these finds.
This is the first thing I found. It's actually a small face.
In the past a lot of these faces
turned out to be medieval, like studs
but this is definitely something more substantial.
This is a lot more heavy duty.
I'm reasonably happy that this could be Iron Age.
The second object was...
..again, something that looks old.
I don't recognise it.
It would be nice if some of these bits fit together.
Again, looking how thick the patina is -
the field is a clay field and it's not very good condition -
but looking at that, if I'd have found that anywhere,
I'd have said that looks like Bronze Age.
The whole patina and everything looks like Bronze Age.
That's two nice pieces.
The third piece was even more recognisable.
I'm pretty sure that that's a fragment
of a bovine, or a cow, bucket mount.
I'm pretty sure that's what this is. I've seen these before.
So thinking about it,
all these could be from say an Iron Age bucket
and then the plough came along and smashed all the bits up.
And again, the patina is really old - you can tell.
It's like the patina is the coating to the metal and it's really thick
and then the plough's come along and it's damaged it.
But you can tell. You don't get this on modern stuff.
This is like thousands of years of patination.
As you can see, that would have been a loop
from the top of the bucket
and that's one horn, that's another horn.
The bit that's broken off
is the lower part of the actual face of the cow.
I'll do some research
and hopefully we'll be able to find a close parallel to this,
but a really important find.
You can see the damage that the plough does to these.
Real, serious damage, especially this one.
This is probably the worst of the lot.
This one's obviously been rolling around.
The trouble with clay is that some years
the clay goes absolutely rock solid when the plough turns this over.
It's literally tearing it through rock-hard pieces of clay.
And all sorts of damage gets done.
But there you go.
And the last bit I think is just a piece of lead
but because it was on that area I'd better just have a quick look.
That's just a piece of lead.
So that's it. Six good finds, one bad find.
And basically, the only reason that I found these was
because I saw a small area in the field where there was a ring ditch
and I went to that exact spot and found all this stuff.
Now, I've detected those fields for years
and I just tend to walk around and not find anything.
So the CTX 3030 and the actual WayPoint feature,
being able to drag that onto the map and then walk to that spot
is one hell of a feature, as you can see.
It has helped me find six,
I think they're all going to be Iron Age artefacts.
Brilliant.
Of course, the last thing to do is get it onto a PC,
work out exactly where I've walked
to make sure I've covered all the area
and to see if there's any patterns of where those finds have come from
and as you can see, they've all started off in the centre there
and slowly worked down the hill.
So next year I just load those FindPoints into my CTX 3030
and I walk back there
and see if anything else has been ripped from the subsoil
and is lying on the surface.