Goldpick's 2018 Deus finds

[Eldorado]

The contraption is interesting,how big is it? Depending on size,I was thinking it might be a rug beater.You know,you hang up a rug and beat it with contraption to get the dust out of it.

 

[Mackka]

Very nice finds mate.
mackka

 

[Smoky bandit]

Forgive me if I'm stupid mate...But did you find the rifle and sword/bayonets .

 

[silver]

Forgive me if I'm stupid mate...But did you find the rifle and sword/bayonets .

Yeah.... he's an amazing hunter ]

 

[Smoky bandit]

Forgive me if I'm stupid mate...But did you find the rifle and sword/bayonets .

Yeah.... he's an amazing hunter ]

Well you never know mate.His finds are always well presented. And I found a buried container with a sks and a homemade handgun when I was 18 :Y:

 

[Goldpick]

Umm no, just an example of the Martini Henry rifle that those projectiles would have originated from.

As for that contraption, it's not huge given that my hand fits snugly into the curved handle. Would have though a rug beater would have had a straight handle, a bit awkward with this style of handle.

 

[Goldpick]

Headed across to Vic to see if the tall grass had died off around a little used regional oval. Thankfully it had, allowing us to finish cleaning up some pockets of coins missed on the last couple of trips.

Love digging those huge Martini Henry rifle cartridges, starting to gain bit of a collection of those after a few trips though didn't come across any unfired projectiles this time around.

The coppers were pretty crusty, pennies were from 1951, 1919, 1922, & 1915 - the lone hp was from 1916. Silvers included a 1943 thrip, 1926 sixpence and a very welcome 1946 florin.

Mrs Goldpick found the 1922 penny with the Racer 2, which was pretty good considering her limited experience on that particular machine.

One of the buttons was from a local town about 50kms away (Coleraine). We only spent about three hours there as most of the day was spent sightseeing along the Grampians, and doing a bit of a recce.

Also managed to lose most of my field photos bar 2, stupid phone!

Sweet!! arty:

 

[Sandta]

Those bullet shells are part of history , very nice
Silvers are always welcome , and another 'forum found' florin to end the week

 

[The Scrounger]

Your hunts are very different from the main,except for the great silvers arty:

Great effort :Y:

 

[Heatho]

Nice work mate, nice florrie.

 

[golddiggerart]

Well after seeing through the finds that I've missed while I was away doing other stuff I have to say it was all eye candy.....The highlight being that Silver Florin, you know the one - just WOW!...

The wired contraption looks like a home made toaster hahaha Lay ya toast on it and put it over the fire, or maybe you could call it a griller hahaha

Just fantastic and some lovely finds which I am sure we've all come to expect from you.
:Y: :/ 8) arty: :rainbow:

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks mate, I try my best to mix up my finds and locations, keeps the interest going.

I have been pulling out some of my better relics for display, sorry about the crap photos, the glass shelves are a pain to work with. Doggy tag collection is also coming along nicely.

 

[Heatho]

Farout, really puts how much you've found into perspective when you see it all layed out like that. As you said, it's some of it.

 

[ctxkid]

luv arty: arty: arty: the champion cricket buckle

 

[The Scrounger]

You are The King of relic hunters with no challengers.

Great stuff,very very interesting :Y:

 

[Smoky bandit]

Very impressive :Y:

 

[golddiggerart]

A museum would envy all of that.... Saving history one relic at a time....preferably several per dig.

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks guys, a lot of those items were found on sites detected by others, though many chose to only target coins and high conductors. The end result is that many of the low to medium conductors are still left in the ground. Only one way to find all the goodies, and that is to dig all non-ferrous - you would be surprised at what you might find.

 

[Goldpick]

luv arty: arty: arty: the champion cricket buckle

That's the only cricket buckle I've ever found, pretty rare around vs in Vic - found in the middle of a paddock not far from an 1800's sixpence. The little guy next door to the buckle standing against his cricket bat is an 1860's Australian tour of England pin, found at the base of a large gum tree. I have been meaning to donate that to a cricket museum in Vic, as it possibly relates to first ever Aboriginal cricket team to tour England. Why it ended up at the location where I found it, no idea, I have found no information whatsoever to link it to the area.

It is the sort of item that adds intrigue to a relic hunt, and also something that spurs you on to discover more Australian history.

 

[The Scrounger]

I think I heard this week or last that two aboriginal cricket teams (male and female) are heading to England to commemorate that 1860's match.

That is one red hot find :Y: