Crawfords Metal Detectors

Crawfords Metal Detectors The Best in Metal Detecting! Crawfords Metal Detectors have everything you need for your metal detecting adventures. Contact us now for help and advice!

We are passionate about all things metal detecting and we offer friendly and knowledgeable advice and sales of metal detectors and accessories for everyone from beginners to experts. You can either call personally at our showroom or use our fast, efficient mail order service. We want you to get the best out of your hobby so give us a call.

15/10/2026

A neat little Manticore feature: adaptive lighting 💡

The Minelab Manticore comes with adaptive lighting built in, and it's one of those touches you stop noticing precisely because it just works.

Here's what it does: the detector reads the ambient light around you and adjusts the display to match. Bright, sunny day? The screen brightens so you can read it clearly. Detecting at dusk or in low light? It automatically dims so it's not glaring back at you. No fiddling required.

And if you'd rather take control, you can. Turn adaptive lighting on or off, and set both the screen brightness and the keypad brightness exactly how you like them.

Small feature, but it's the kind of thing that keeps you comfortable from first light to last.

👉 Shop the Minelab Manticore at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

🎫 WIN A MINELAB MANTICORE 🎫Our Golden Ticket competition is on.Place any order over £100 with Crawfords and you automati...
15/10/2026

🎫 WIN A MINELAB MANTICORE 🎫
Our Golden Ticket competition is on.

Place any order over £100 with Crawfords and you automatically get a Golden Ticket into the draw to win a Minelab Manticore. Online, over the phone or in the shop, it all counts. Your numbered ticket arrives with your order.

Every order over £100 is another ticket, so the more you shop, the more chances you have.

And that's on top of everything you already get with us:
- Diggits reward points on every order, worth money off next time
- Price match guarantee
- Free delivery on orders over £99
- 0% interest finance available
- Rated Excellent on Trustpilot, 4.9 out of 5

You can shop elsewhere, of course. But if you do, someone else is definitely winning that Manticore. 😉
👉 https://crawfordsmd.com/

Closes 11:59pm on Sunday 20th December 2026. UK residents aged 18 or over. One entry per completed order over £100. No cash alternative. Full T&Cs: https://crawfordsmd.com/rewards

14/10/2026

The best way to learn your new detector? Your kitchen table 🪙

When you're starting out, it's easy to try and learn everything at once — and that's usually where it goes wrong. A common trap is cranking settings up thinking you'll get more depth, when really you just create a load of false signals and confuse yourself.

The trick is to slow down and get familiar with the concepts one at a time. And you don't even need to be out in a field to do it.

Grab a handful of different coins and test them on your kitchen table at home. Try them at different angles. Try them at different heights. Listen to how the tones and IDs change. Do that little and often, and you'll build a real feel for what your detector is telling you — long before you're standing in the mud wondering whether to dig.

Learn it at home, cash it in out in the field.

👉 Shop Minelab detectors at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

13/10/2026

How to set up your WM09 wireless module 🎧

Good news — if you can pair your headphones, you can do this. Setting up the WM09 module works exactly the same way.

1️⃣ Press the wireless button on the module — the blue light will start flashing rapidly.
2️⃣ Press and hold the wireless button on your detector until it beeps.
3️⃣ That's it — paired. As easy as that.

The best bit? Once it's connected, you can plug your favourite wired earbuds straight into the WM09 and clip the module wherever suits you. No cable running up to a big pair of headphones, just comfortable audio your way.

Save this for the next time you're kitting up in the field.

👉 Shop Minelab detectors and accessories at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

✨ Check out this golden hand ✨We shared it before but we have to share such a truly unique find again. Nick unearthed th...
12/10/2026

✨ Check out this golden hand ✨

We shared it before but we have to share such a truly unique find again. Nick unearthed this stunning piece of gold with his Minelab Manticore, and we can honestly say we've never seen anything else like it.

Huge well done, Nick. Finds like this are why we all keep going back out there. 👏

Fancy a Manticore of your own? Our triple coil deal is still on. You get the Manticore with its standard 11" coil, plus your choice of any two extra coils from the M8, M9 and M15, all for the standard price of £1,799. That's up to £658 worth of coils, free.

You'll earn Diggits reward points on it too: nearly 36,000 of them, worth around £36 off your next order.

It's time to treat yourself!
👉 https://crawfordsmd.com/minelab-manticore

12/10/2026

Why target separation matters more than ever 🎯

Over recent years, more and more detectorists are working old habitation sites — and those places are absolutely full of iron and junk. That's exactly where target separation earns its money.

Target separation is a detector's ability to pick out a good target from the rubbish sitting right next to it — how well it "sees" into the gaps between the junk as you sweep across. Put simply: how close can two targets be before the detector can no longer tell them apart and they merge into one signal?

Ever seen those tests at Detectival or on YouTube — a coin and a nail sat close together on a bit of wood? That's target separation in action. A good machine lets you clearly hear the coin sitting between the iron. Push them too close and eventually even the best detector blends them into one — that's the limit, and it's a great way to compare machines.

Better separation means fewer good finds left behind on the hammered sites.

👉 Shop Minelab detectors at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

11/10/2026

Which audio type suits you? 🎚️

Your detector can talk to you in different ways, and there's no single "correct" setting — it comes down to how your brain likes to work.

Some detectorists prefer fewer, more discrete beeps with less pitch variation. It keeps things simple and helps them focus, without a wall of noise to sort through. Others love the opposite — lots of pitch variation and all the extra information the machine can give, so they can pick apart exactly what's under the coil.

A lot of it comes down to experience. The more time you put in, the better your brain gets at comprehending everything coming through the audio and making sense of it fast — and that's what lets you dig the good targets and leave the junk behind.

Try both. Find what your ears and brain get on with best.

👉 Shop Minelab detectors at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

🎧 Got a Manticore, an Equinox, an X-TERRA or a Vanquish? Read this before you buy wireless audio."Do the ML60 earbuds wo...
11/10/2026

🎧 Got a Manticore, an Equinox, an X-TERRA or a Vanquish? Read this before you buy wireless audio.

"Do the ML60 earbuds work with the Manticore?" is one of the questions we get asked most. The answer is no, and it's an easy mistake to make. The ML60 and the WM09 sit side by side on our headphones page and sound like they do the same job. They don't.

Our new blog sorts it out in plain English:
- Manticore, Equinox 700 and 900, X-TERRA Elite and Pro: what works and what doesn't
- Vanquish 460 and 560: where the ML60 earbuds fit in
- Equinox 600 and 800, Vanquish 540 and 360: what your options are
- What the WM09 module actually is, and why it might be the best value in your kit bag

Find your detector in the first table and you'll have your answer in about ten seconds.
👉 https://crawfordsmd.com/blog/minelab-ml60-vs-wm09

Still not sure? Call us on 01724 845608 and we'll check it for you.

🎁 OCTOBER NEWSLETTER GIVEAWAY 🎁This month we're giving away the new Loxley Digger Trowel, and winning it couldn't be sim...
10/10/2026

🎁 OCTOBER NEWSLETTER GIVEAWAY 🎁

This month we're giving away the new Loxley Digger Trowel, and winning it couldn't be simpler.

No liking, no sharing, no tagging. If you're signed up to the Crawfords newsletter and you open our emails now and then, you're in the draw. That's all you need to do.

The prize is a stainless steel hand digging tool with a ribbed grip for control in tough ground, and it comes with its own protective sheath. Worth £26.95.

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👉 https://crawfordsmd.com/
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10/10/2026

Why does the All Metal button exist? 🔘

Here's something that surprises newer detectorists. A lot of experienced folk, once they really know their machine, actually prefer to turn discrimination off and hear everything.

Why? Because discrimination blocks certain target IDs out for you — but that means the detector is making the decision. Seasoned detectorists often want all the information coming through, so they can use their own ears and judgement to decide what's worth digging. You'd be amazed what hides next to iron and junk.

That's exactly what the All Metal button on your Minelab is for. It's a quick toggle: run your discrimination pattern to block out the stuff you don't want, or flick to All Metal and hear the lot. One press, and you can switch depending on the ground you're on.

Discriminate when you want speed, go all metal when you don't want to miss a thing.

👉 Shop Minelab detectors at Crawfords, the UK's home for Minelab: https://crawfordsmd.com/

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