2017 detector finds

[Ramjet]

Nice hunt GP. You gotta be doing something right when the Deus is detecting Glass. LOL

 

[Goldpick]

Nice hunt GP. You gotta be doing something right when the Deus is detecting Glass. LOL

It's lying all over the place on the surface, the missus likes to pick up patterned china fragments of interest - am yet to find any intact bottles so far.

Also just realised I can see a faint "6" on the shilling from the above photo (just below the right bottom of the bust), hence 1816.

 

[B5MECH]

Nice run GP :Y: what are the ring things x2?
Sweet silver :rainbow: arty: :Y:

 

[Goldpick]

Nice run GP :Y: what are the ring things x2?
Sweet silver :rainbow: arty: :Y:

They are labelled with Peyton & Harlow - Birmingham, manufacturers of Brass and Iron bedheads, sofas, reclining chairs and bicycles. Their partnership came to be in 1850, and the company went bankrupt in 1884. Not sure what particular item they are from, still another nice piece of history.

 

[silver]

Far cry from how it should look hey ! Must a been in service for quite a while ,... was the tree old enough to have been sat against while it was being lost ? ,.... those worn coins would be slippery bugga's in ya pocket when your sitting there with your knees drawn up sleeping off a headache and trying to keep warm n out of the wind (or rain) all tucked up next to a tree. :Y:

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks Silver, they are plantation trees, hence the coin has been disturbed and relocated hard up the tree base (or the coin was pushed up during growth). Nothing is in-situ here due the ground being ripped several times during the course of the 1900's.

 

[Sandta]

Thats a top find :Y:
If your only gonna find one coin ... thats not a bad one for it to be

 

[rocketaroo]

rare find is old bullhead, no doubt they were in circulation for a long time.

 

[Heatho]

Top find that old shilling GP, I'd be absolutely stoked with it. :Y:

 

[Goldpick]

Back at it again today, pretty crap weather for it, though nothing a good rain coat won't fix. Reckon I drove a round trip of 200kms today, only to end up back at a site only 30kms from town - pretty much a last minute decision to revisit yet another inn site. Eventually got there and pretty much couldn't recognise the site, all the trees had been harvested leaving a hell of a mess to detect around. The only advantage was that some of the soil had been disturbed, hence the possibilities of some new finds. Have never found a coin here before, though I know some very old coins have come from the inn site in the past beng on the route from the coas to the Victorian goldfields.

Today I ran both the 11" and 9" hf coils, using the usual hot program with varying reactivity settings. Ended up not using the backphones, so the MI-6 pinpointer audio came through the remote speaker.

First target was a large clock winder, pretty hard to miss so I reckon that had been turned over in the soil recently. Another blabe scrape nearby exposed my first ever coin from the site, a very nice condition 1857 Victorian hp (the larger/thicker version). The next few hours didn't turn up a hell of a lot, a few large muskets balls plus a few smaller pistol balls, and several buttons. The last target was a copper thimble missing the bottom rim, found that about 20cms away. Considering how hard that site is to detect now, I was pretty happy with those results.

 

[ktmman]

Great couple of hunts Goldpick , still don't have a British half penny yet. One of these days :Y:

 

[numpty]

good hunt GP, the key and the HP are rippa's, the thimble has lasted well for is age too :Y: .

 

[silver]

Top looking hp Gp ,... persistence pays hey !
:Y: :Y:

 

[Smoky bandit]

Well done again GP :Y:

 

[Sandta]

The hp is in great condition
Sounds like a tough site

 

[Ramjet]

Nice finds. I like the Clock key.

 

[caparobertsan]

Well my finds today seem to pale in significance compared to what the guys are finding in NSW, though at least I was rewarded with one decent and quite old coin for my efforts.

The site we visited was where an an old inn existed, a site that we have detected many times before. Extremely hard to find any coins these days, though they are usually pretty old if you do manage to locate any. The ground is littered with glass, ceramics, iron and roofing material, hence it dan be a real challenge to detect.

I ran with the Deus on 14kHz and reactivity 4, when I got a peep of a high tone between some iron. Hard up against a tree stump (on edge) was a very worn King George III shilling from bewteen 1816-1820, dead flat on the front face though you can still make out some wording and the bust on the obverse.

Still very happy to make that single find, you don't tend to find many Georgian coins in this part of the world, they are nowhere near as common as in the eastern states where the colony was much older.

Other than that it was a pretty relaxing day, have got all week off so plenty of time to make some good finds.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1493460113_img_20170429_191939.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1493460207_img_20170429_192027.jpg

Should look like this
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1493460262_images-5.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1493460306_img_20170429_192224.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1695/1493460324_img_20170429_192150.jpg

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! That silver coin is amazing! And the condition of English coin is amazing!!!!

 

[golddiggerart]

That Victoria is a beauty and in great condition, absolutely a beautiful find and the detail on the back where the date usually is for the more modern pennies is amazing mate.

 

[Heatho]

Great looking old penny that one, well done GP. :Y:

 

[Danny13]

Unbelievable hunting and retrieval , amazing relics and coins GD 8)