Goldpick's 2018 Deus finds

Well that's even better......

Making me wonder about my silver fob now.... never ever opened it (ha). 8)

Was a bit lucky tonight with the weather as it rained all the way out the area I was going to detect, and before you know it the stars came out and we were good to go. First plan was to check out some possible previous house sites from the early 1900's, unfortunately too much fill covering the whole area screwed up that idea. Fallback plan was to simply head back to the main park and continue slow careful gridding of the previously detected ground, this time trying running the opposite direction as the previous hunt (one with the sovereign holder).

I still find it amusing at how many targets I had managed to walk over or missed completely on the previous couple of outings, I guess sometimes you are in the mood to check out iffy targets and other times in cherry picking mode to pick out half obvious high conductors. First target of the night was actually the really nice WW2 RAAF cap badge, unfortunately the remainder of the rear pin fell off during cleaning, otherwise it will be a good piece in thre dislpay cabinet.

The "gold" ring turned out to be a junker, though a few silvers made up for the pain - 1941 thrip, plus 1921 & 1942 sixpences.

The coppers varied in age a fair bit, earliest was a 1920 hp through to a 1949 Roo penny.

Other finds included a lead plumb bob, a bell possibly off a childs car, clock parts and a ruler hinge.

Cripes, look at the time, I'm off to bed!

Nice hunt mate, when I first saw that ring I thought it was gold. Plenty of coins to make up for it.

Geez if I went to bed at that time I wouldn't be right all week, lol.

nice ! what is the number on the suzuki motorcycle key ?

A lot of cool looking stuff there + silvers arty:

I'm loving that badge :Y:

Still plenty to keep you going at that spot
Those ruler hinges are a pretty common find , think we've all got a few of em or more.
Whats that cap looking thing at the top .... looks like silver
Nice badge :Y:

Ok call me dumb but what is a ruler hinge? i cant see anything that looks like a hinge

Sandta said:

Still plenty to keep you going at that spot
Those ruler hinges are a pretty common find , think we've all got a few of em or more.
Whats that cap looking thing at the top .... looks like silver
Nice badge :Y:

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Doh!! i've been missing your thread GP :8 Now i've faved it so i won't miss your posts lol. I will take the time to browse right back through your thread. You are an awesome detectorist matey. 8)

Nice hunting again mate, gotta love going over an area you've done before and still find some awesome treasures....That RAAF badge is the shizz... :Y:

3 silvers ain't half bad for a young fella !
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Secret Squirrels said:

Doh!! i've been missing your thread GP :8 Now i've faved it so i won't miss your posts lol. I will take the time to browse right back through your thread. You are an awesome detectorist matey. 8)

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Thanks for the compliment SS, it's appreciated. Has been a pretty awesome year so far for many of the detectorists on the forum.

CTXKid, here's a pic of the other side of the Suzuki key.

awesome late 70's key

You always find the coolest relics, and the way you photograph them makes even the mundane into something special.
And silver, that's always good too

great find that badge

rocketaroo said:

great find that badge

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Hi Rocket, was about to say you've been missing in action - just saw you posted.

Ok, today was the first cab off the rank for trying out pitch program to see if more finds could be liberated from a well detected site - being an 1800's house site where an 1840 farthing was found, amongst other goodies. Must say I was pretty astonished at how well it performed, anything that came up as non-ferrous was dug, most iron was discriminated out and large iron was pretty easy to avoid from the tonal info. This site has been pretty hard to detect in the past due to the amount of iron layered throughout the ground - nails, roofing, car parts and machinery causing most of the mayhem.

One particular section of ground provided the 1891 Vic penny, gilt buckle and gilt pendant, and a further 10 metres on the cool buckle with the red "gem" in the centre. The pair of gilt cufflinks came out of two separate holes within a foot of each other, both deep soft tones. Also couldn't believe the amount of buttons still in the ground, some were quite deep and mixed in with iron targets.

Later on produced the first padlock for the site, quite a small brass one encrusted in rust which I manged to pick away at for the pics.

This was running the HF coil on 14kHz on the HOT program with tones changed from fulltones to pitch, reactivity set at 2.5 for the quieter areas, and 3 for the iron infested sections - discrimination set at 10. The result is a very quiet running Deus, hearing nothing but non-ferrous and the occasional high tone large iron creeping through, though easy to identify. Pitch takes the guess work out of deciphering whether a target is a digger or not vs hearing a barrage of "maybe" diggers in fulltones - targets seem to be a lot more clear cut, especially if in close proximity to iron.

Running the higher frequencies next time around should hopefully help locate a few more targets in the worse sections of ground, though very happy a what 14kHz found.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Geez Goldpick you're onto a winner there....Beautiful finds and lovely old relics... That Penny is in mint condition... :Y:

Thanks Golddig, the penny had a bit of a cleanup with Andre's crayons, just needed to gently remove a black layer that sits over the green patina.

Great expos'e !
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