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Some years ago. south of Hall's Creek in WA, i detected the remains of a woman's purse. It was just the brass bow from the mouth of the purse.
Obviously I wondered what had been in the purse before it disintegrated in the annual bush fires.
I cleared away the spinifex and in no time at all I found an 1872 Queen Victoria English threepence, an 1873 Dutch two and a half cent piece and a large silver plated ring with the plating worn away in parts probably due to working in gravel.
I surmised that the woman who lost the purse was a widow who retained her dead husband's ring for sentimental reasons.
There was a grave nearby with no headstone, just a rectangle of pure white quartz rocks but it would have been too much to conclude that that had been her husband's grave because it was close to Brockman's area where gastric disease had killed many prospectors.
There was also a brass artifact containing a still workable spring but what it was reains a mystery. I can't produce o photograph because I have mislaid the whole bundle of finds.
On another occasion I found an Elizabethan coin in the same area. Unfortunately it was from the reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second and doesn't count.
Obviously I wondered what had been in the purse before it disintegrated in the annual bush fires.
I cleared away the spinifex and in no time at all I found an 1872 Queen Victoria English threepence, an 1873 Dutch two and a half cent piece and a large silver plated ring with the plating worn away in parts probably due to working in gravel.
I surmised that the woman who lost the purse was a widow who retained her dead husband's ring for sentimental reasons.
There was a grave nearby with no headstone, just a rectangle of pure white quartz rocks but it would have been too much to conclude that that had been her husband's grave because it was close to Brockman's area where gastric disease had killed many prospectors.
There was also a brass artifact containing a still workable spring but what it was reains a mystery. I can't produce o photograph because I have mislaid the whole bundle of finds.
On another occasion I found an Elizabethan coin in the same area. Unfortunately it was from the reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second and doesn't count.
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without successive finds you would be none the wiser. If you do find your lost treasure it'd be nice to see some pictures.
