Great hunt GP, the bracelet find is very cool, some great history being unccovered there.
2017 detector finds
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Chris Johnson
Sandta said:
Not really sure, being a rail siding maybe it has something to do with freight packaging???
Today I ended up visiting the 1800's house site I mentioned yesterday, not too much left here (at least in areas I can access), but still enough to keep me going for a couple of hours. Yet another fob watch bezel (starting a collection on these), a few reasonable buttons, and a couple of quite nice condition suspender buckles. Reckon I got most of the coins on the first couple of trips here, either way the original occupant wasn't very well off, hence I wouldn't expect much to be lying around.
Won't be out again till the weekend, hopefully we will head somewhere different for a change (maybe a sneek over the border).
Nice GP, is the Fob watch bezel silver?
Sweet hunt
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
ktmman said:
Don't think so, just checked and it registers around 80 on my Teknetics G2, would expect it to be a fair bit higher than that if silver.
golddiggerart
Arthur
Wow that site just keeps giving and giving... Amazing....
Amazing....
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
golddiggerart said:Wow that site just keeps giving and giving...
Nope, different site again. An Indian guy lived at this site in the late 1800's, did wood cutting and a few other odd jobs from the historical records that I've seen.
Funny how all these hunts on 1800's sites could almost be carbon copies of each other, even some of the US hunts that I'vd seen from the same era produce very similar items - just the coins are different unless in an area where Colonial coinage can be found.
B5MECH
Laurence Male
Nice hunting GP :Y: the things down the back you always hide in the back line....there shotgun shell's hey?
:Y: the things down the back you always hide in the back line....there shotgun shell's hey?
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
B5MECH said:Nice hunting GP
Yep, they are everywhere but are also good for dating a site - they also ring up all over the place on the conductivity scale, so must dig them.
Here's the results from yet another visit to the old school, starting to get a bit hard to find targets, though still not doing too bad at this stage. The 1861 half penny was sitting on edge and not far under the surface (see photo), and the 1885 penny was just plain missed by everyone sitting inbetween a pair of trees. A few more buttons to add to the ever growing tally, plus a clunker of a musket ball that gave off a pretty good signal at depth.
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
So here I am on a day off thinking where to go for a detect - any sane person would say let's drive 370kms to go detecting for predecimals, so that's what I did.
Ended up crossing the border to raid the Vic's coin sites, settling upon an older cricket oval that hadn't seen a game in a while. The clubrooms were still in use, as was the case today, so I asked a guy if he didn't mind me having a poke around - no problem! Turned out I had been driving for so long that I only had a couple of hours to get my mojo together before thinking about heading home again.
First signs weren't good - pull tab, bottle cap and ring pull city, so for once I decided to make use of the XY screen to weed out the caps, whilst relying on probable depth via the audio to pick out the older coins from the junk. That worked quite well, managed to find 1926, 1956 & 1954 threepences, 1951 florin and a 1944 penny for the short time i was there. The rest of the targets were a couple of goldies and a dog tag type item engraved with "Shorty", not very old though nor silver.
Today was also a test run for the new Deteknix WS4 headphones, and so far I am real impressed. Very comfortable, nice crisp clear audio, and light enough that you forget you are wearing them after a while. I will do a little write up in the XP section for those interested.
Needless to say I am knakkered from the drive, despite only a few silvers (can't be greedy), at least the scenery was beautiful, plus lots of old abandoned houses seen on the way that might be worth getting permissions for.
Ended up crossing the border to raid the Vic's coin sites, settling upon an older cricket oval that hadn't seen a game in a while. The clubrooms were still in use, as was the case today, so I asked a guy if he didn't mind me having a poke around - no problem! Turned out I had been driving for so long that I only had a couple of hours to get my mojo together before thinking about heading home again.
First signs weren't good - pull tab, bottle cap and ring pull city, so for once I decided to make use of the XY screen to weed out the caps, whilst relying on probable depth via the audio to pick out the older coins from the junk. That worked quite well, managed to find 1926, 1956 & 1954 threepences, 1951 florin and a 1944 penny for the short time i was there. The rest of the targets were a couple of goldies and a dog tag type item engraved with "Shorty", not very old though nor silver.
Today was also a test run for the new Deteknix WS4 headphones, and so far I am real impressed. Very comfortable, nice crisp clear audio, and light enough that you forget you are wearing them after a while. I will do a little write up in the XP section for those interested.
Needless to say I am knakkered from the drive, despite only a few silvers (can't be greedy), at least the scenery was beautiful, plus lots of old abandoned houses seen on the way that might be worth getting permissions for.
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Amazing find! Headphone looks cool! So original back phone's control disc clips on ya-?
golddiggerart
Arthur
Wow that's a long day, I got tired reading it....AT least you got some silvers and maybe some promising permissions, that's gotta be a good sign. :Y:
Edited: I am going back to the silvers spot to find me a Sixpence and a Florin then I'll have a full set of Silvers. I need to stop in and check that the power is on in the house we're moving too anyway.
:Y:Edited: I am going back to the silvers spot to find me a Sixpence and a Florin then I'll have a full set of Silvers.
I need to stop in and check that the power is on in the house we're moving too anyway.
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
caparobertsan said:
That's correct, slip the controller off the backphones and straight onto these ones, Deteknix should sell heaps of these.
B5MECH
Laurence Male
That's a long way too go GP...lucky you got some sweet silver :Y: Some of the dirt looks very rusty mineralided....was it high on the ground balance?
Might be the light but looks like two different dirts 8)
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
B5MECH said:
Some of the dirt looks very rusty mineralided....was it high on the ground balance?
Might be the light but looks like two different dirts 8)
Yes the soil did vary a bit on that site, some areas were quite loamy where the soil profile was a bit deeper, whilst other most exposed areas were covered in that real ferruginous red ball bearing type gravel. Come to think of it, I never looked at the mineralisation meter as I was using the XY screen which doesn't show it.
Never touched my ground balance today, left it on manual 90 and was getting pretty good depth going by how deep the florin was. Anywhere you go where you get that red dirt and ball bearing gravels tends to get the Deus mineralisation bar pumping, which means you need to have a look at altering the ground balance. I just tend to avoid those areas, as the soil is very shallow and not like to hold anything of worth (old).
That's a bit of a drive GP. Dedication for sure.
Massive drive for a treasure detect mate. It's great to just get in the car and get on the highway for a good look around sometimes.
Nice finds.
Nice finds.
