Goldpick's 2018 Deus finds

[ctxkid]

I have found the madest things in places , i wish i could make them speak to ask how and why
Cricket buckles would be right up there with the coolest find you can make , digging odd numbers and tones in relic areas is fun for sure.

 

[Goldpick]

A glorious day today, perfect weather for a detect, so headed back to this spot https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=413415#p413415, and continued on slowly gridding interesting sections. The 11" coil went to bed and the 9" HF coil came out to play, as there was most likely some masked items in the iron contaminated sections of ground.

Surely enough a mellow high conductor was heard amongst the spitting iron, not long after starting the Deus up - my first silver from the site, a worn 1924 sixpence. As the best finds seemed to be coming from amongst both the iron and what looked to be a bottle dump (and ceramics), I concentrated on that area for today rather than run around like a chook with its head cut off. Next target was the Australian Military Forces button, followed by the deformed 1938 penny - looked to be hit with a centrepunch or something si6imilar. The dog tags also came from the same general area, dating from 1947-48, 1924-25, & 1922-23. Last predecimal for the day was the 1916 hp, other oddities included an STC radio badge, completely intact red pickup truck, fob watch covers and some rather large lead projectiles.

Not sure what the item depicting cupid is (second pic), I must have broken it with the digger as it had fresh breaks on it. All up a pretty successful jaunt, not bad for a couple of hours. Still have plenty of ground to cover, so should keep me busy for a couple of weeks.

Any ideas?

Now that's a bullet! 8)

Really nice condition truck, though no maker markings on it.

What the heck!!!

What the heck x2!!

Nice condition, just missing the shank.

Another radio badge for Rocket!

 

[Heatho]

Top hunt mate, plenty of cool stuff there. That projectile is huge.

 

[The Scrounger]

You wouldn't want that struck penny in your pant pocket when it was struck,ouch.

Another very interesting effort :Y:

 

[golddiggerart]

Nice one mate, looks like a miss strike for a coin ring on the penny? :Y:

 

[silver]

Mystery item not part of a pair of ornate scissors at all ? 8)
:Y: :Y:

 

[Goldpick]

Mystery item not part of a pair of ornate scissors at all ? 8)
:Y: :Y:

Afraid not Silver, way too large and heavy. Might be part of a stand, or at least an end of one - who knows.

 

[Goldpick]

The latest relic site keeps on giving, no predecs this time and only a lone 1922-23 dog tag, though was over the moon finding a King George VI Coronation teaspoon in real good condition. arty:

I love getting surprises like that, makes relic hunting a real hoot. Funning thing was when I showed the Mrs the spoon, she said wait a minute and came back with the exact same spoon for the King Edward VIII Coronation (was her Father's). Both spoons are Australian made, but the rarity comes in that the Edward Spoon not being marked with the Abdication overstamp, as he was never coronated. What are the odds of finding a matching spoon???

Mrs Goldpick's matching spoon

 

[golddiggerart]

Amazing and a nice addition to your collection of relics.... :Y:

 

[Mackka]

Love the spoons and the story behind them. What a great site.
Mackka

 

[Goldpick]

Went out for a quick run using a program employing notching around some modern junk filled areas with little to no chance of finding anything old. Worked reasonably well, although I ended up going back to an open screen again (no discrim) being pretty confident on picking targets by ear and a quick view of the screen to cross check. Nothing special found and quite frankly I got a bit bored in the end - think I will stick to the older stuff.

 

[ctxkid]

a mix of old and new , nice haul arty: arty:

 

[Wally69]

I share your passion GP, love the old stuff.....and you have been slaying it lately.

 

[golddiggerart]

I agree, the older stuff has more of a surprise and effect on ya.... :Y:

 

[caparobertsan]

Amazing finds! I really hope I can become the one can use Deus "FORCE" as well as you do! :Y:

 

[Heatho]

Not a bad hunt there GP. The main reason I use very heavy discrim with the CTX sometimes in heavy trash is due to listening fatigue, it really does help me to concentrate better and give the ears a break from too many signals. Each to their own though.

Maybe this could be an update in future for the Deus such with the CTX when you sample known targets into a custom discrim pattern such as coins, you start with a fully blanked out screen called "accept none", then as you wave coins over the coil in "auto accept" mode then small "accept" regions open up. Would be easy on the Deus to have a fully notched out screen and then have an "auto accept" function for sampling in known targets such as coins that opens up that specific section just as a thin reversed notch.

Can the Deus already do this?? If not it would be a great function to have on it.

 

[Goldpick]

Heatho, the notching does work well, the Deus runs very quiet in junky ground and will only give a clean tone on non-rejected targets - like you mention the only reason I use it is for crappy park areas full of mainly alloy targets, something I don't do very often.

The problem with what you are suggesting comes down to the more accurate and higher resolution discrimination on the FBS detectors using both FE:CO values vs a one dimensional 0-99 ID range on the Deus. I think if you were to simply wave a coin over the coil of the Deus to "accept" it would leave a too smaller window for those coins - would usually need to accept the ID above and below that coin number to be sure of capturing all of those coins, and possibly also capturing some junk targets as well due to the size of the notch window. Would probably and even worst scenario on the Nox considering it has an even more compressed ID range for non-ferrous than the Deus (0-40 vs 0-99).

You just have to accept that the FBS detectors have some of the best discrimination abilities in the business, and should take the Deus at face value as being first and foremost a specialised relic detector that can also be utilised in other fields of detecting. If Minelab made a new version of the Explorer including FE:CO numbers and faster recovery but in a lightweight waterproof or weather resistant body, then that would be a good thing.

 

[Heatho]

Ahhh fair enough then. Still though with the tight patterns on the CTX you still get some trash that comes in around the accept regions. The Nox is pretty accurate on the goldies, some are slightly higher or lower though, most $2 are 21 or 22 and a $1 coin will usually throw a 22 or 23. If you ypou only had 21 22 and 23 open it would work very well on goldies.

Anyway was just a thought. Doing this with the Deus I guess it would also be dependant on which frequency you had it set to as well??

 

[Goldpick]

Had a long weekend dilemma on whether to go interstate for a detect, or stick to a local site for another go. Ended up chosing a local site we have visited a few times in the past with varying succes, and was very surprised at the results. Seems that someone has also been there recently, with open pick holes all over the place , though fortunately for us they didn't seem to know what they were doing (targeting large junk targets). Rather than detect around the ruins, we headed off down the adjacent track to see if finds had been graded a distance from the ruins, and we managed to hit a small partch rich in finds.

Despite the first find being a ramshead shilling, it was extremely difficult going with the ground saturated in rusty iron nails - the type of ground that gives up 4 or so nails before you even find the initial target. It really was a case of removing the offending nails to see what targets were being masked, and there were lots of them, none of the coins aside from the penny were obivous clean high tone hits, just hints of something good amongst the nails. I'd that many detectorist has walked over this section of ground on multiple occasions without much interest, you simply could not hear any of the good targets until you started diggin, often revealing multiple non-ferrous targets in the same hole.

I'd say that we were not finding targets from the ruins, but more than likely some stables further down from the ruins going by all the buckles and horse tack. Also going by the age of some of the finds, the site was occupied or utilised from the 1800's right through to the late 1900's. I have never found so many of the more modern dog tags on the same site - oldest from the 1950's through to the early 80's. The silvers also date back to the 1920's aside from Mrs Goldpick's solitary coin, an 1891 Veilhead thrip in great nick.

After pulling several buckles, buttons, cufflink and various pieces of horse tack, I found an interesting pen made for AMP in the 1925 - showing total company assets of 57,000,000!

I started off with the 11" coil and decided it would wise to use the smaller 9" HF coil, that's when the finds really started to flow. All up a great day out, the knees are a bit sore but worth the effort.

What we had to deal with!

 

[The Scrounger]

Back happily hunting relics again.

Great assortment plus great silvers.

Good result :Y: