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Thanks guys,looking forward to having a swing at the old fireplace,I would love to know the reason why the hut was built where it was.He must have had a good reason to build a home there.It is in very rough terrain with a gully running beside it.Could he have been mining gold in the gully?Maybe some of the story will reveal itself in the finds.
 
Just a quick wrap up photo of last years silver.
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Cheers guys,hope to find a lot more this year.Ever since Silver (thanks mate)sent me some silver coins I love finding anything silver.Smo,I am a bit vague on the spoon but I think I found it with the Alditector in my early days of detecting.The only thing in the photo I didnt find with a detector is the Ying Yang pendant.(surface find near a skate park).
 
I've detected a lot of spoons over the years, but surprisingly no silver silver ones so far - so you have done better than me in that respect. Good to see you enjoying the hobby, hopefully you will get into some more silver this year. :D
 
I haven't been out for a swing for a while with all these scorching hot days lately, but I forced myself to go for a quick swing a few days ago.Sweated my arzoff but it was great to be swinging the coil again.Not much to report though a couple of Roo pennies,a few brown buggers and a wolf Cub Scout badge from the 60s era and American from what I can gather.
The badge
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Badge and pennies
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Internet photo of similar badge.
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50 years ago, one of my jobs was to locate gravel in the East Kimberley Region. We were to extend the bitumen road from Hall's Creek towards Fitzroy Crossing and I was sent to locate gravel deposits. I was driving over low spinifex hills about 4 km off the Great Northern Hwy and came across a Valiant car. The doors were open, the key was in place and everything was in place...except for tyre tracks and footprints. I called up the Main Roads camp, who called the Hall's Creek police. The police officer came out some hours later and suggested that a group of Aboriginals were trying to get to one of the Missions and took a shortcut and ran out of fuel, or the motor conked out. As for no tracks, it must have been abandoned a few years earlier.
Never heard any more about it.
 
Interesting story Bobj, do you remember roughly where it was ?? Some of those old cars are worth a lot of money now. Just a thought.
 
I headed to a spot that I have wanted to swing over for a while now.I had a feeling that there had been houses on this land which are now gone due to the area being flood prone.My suspicions were realised when the first target I dug up was a brass doorknob (sorry forgot to take photo).Found a nice old brass teaspoon which I have cleaned up,a whistle ( the ACME Thunderer) which must be reasonably old because it was made in England not China and a nice ornamental furniture corner piece.I left a few targets in the ground so I will definitely return to swing another day.There has to be a coin or two there somewhere.A few bits of old pottery pieces were dug up as well.
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Today's hunt results $4.49.The XTerra was like a 1 & 2 cent vacuum cleaner. The BB's were everywhere.29 cents worth.Just finished 8 days of work so it was good to get out and have a swing.Also found the inner workings of a pocket watch which wasn't silver and pretty toasted so not worthy of a photo.
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While I am here,I just wanted to share something with you guys.This is not something I found,but an item a friend of mine brought into work to show me.It belonged to his Grandfather and has been looked at by a few experts and is believed to be a piece of trench art.Rising Sun badge with Mother of Pearl backing.Just thought I would share.
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