The Sterling Thimble and 1912 UK Half Crown came from the same site
The Half Crown was pretty much as deep as the detector would pick it up with a VDI reading,I
almost gave up thinking it was large deep rusted iron,filled the hole back in after not being able to find anything with the pinpointer the first time.....I decided to rescan and it was still picking up a feint high reading
so I dug again and after going slightly deeper than the length of the pinpointer I found it :)
Must say I was quite happy that I listened to my gut feeling and kept going.
A blog about some Metal Detecting Trips and Finds in New Zealand. We go Water Detecting mainly but also do some old spots depending on our research. Have to try and keep track of all the 'hunts' :)
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
A bit of Silver and a nice Antique Brass Pancake Padlock
Some of the more interesting finds since my last post
My first Silver in the 1800's
1887 UK 3 pence
Silver Ring stamped 99,maybe 99% Silver?
A Solid Brass Padlock,these were made from 1870 onwards....?
La Jaynees Lipstick Holder
And some more Bullets from the 'Lands Wars' period
Some Junk Jewellery
A Handful of NZ Pennies
1921 and 1922 Aus Pennies
And a nice condition 1895 UK Half
And two buttons from opposite ends of the world :)
The SA Navy one I found a few weeks back,but just forgot to post
My first Silver in the 1800's
1887 UK 3 pence
Silver Ring stamped 99,maybe 99% Silver?
A Solid Brass Padlock,these were made from 1870 onwards....?
La Jaynees Lipstick Holder
And some more Bullets from the 'Lands Wars' period
Some Junk Jewellery
A Handful of NZ Pennies
1921 and 1922 Aus Pennies
And a nice condition 1895 UK Half
And two buttons from opposite ends of the world :)
The SA Navy one I found a few weeks back,but just forgot to post
Saturday, May 26, 2012
A very productive hunt with Silver and other cool stuff
Went out for a full day hunt with Max.
Max pretty much described the day in on his blog,so I will just show you my finds for the day
$51 in goldies and some other cool stuff
The headless...horseman :)..Pity,cause I like these old lead toys
A really nice Silver ring
Finally a NZ Half crown...have been trying to get one these for ages :):)
Was not expecting to find one of these..
Yet to be cleaned but it looks like 194? Farthing...Cool
All in all it was a very pleasant day out and I reckon we only just scratched the surface of that area
Thanks Max....will definitely be going again soon :)
Max pretty much described the day in on his blog,so I will just show you my finds for the day
$51 in goldies and some other cool stuff
The headless...horseman :)..Pity,cause I like these old lead toys
A really nice Silver ring
Finally a NZ Half crown...have been trying to get one these for ages :):)
Was not expecting to find one of these..
Yet to be cleaned but it looks like 194? Farthing...Cool
All in all it was a very pleasant day out and I reckon we only just scratched the surface of that area
Thanks Max....will definitely be going again soon :)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
More Silver from GCF :):)
I have not been out in a while so today I heard the detecting forces calling out to me...couldn't resist :):)
Didn't really have a game plan,so I went back to my favourite haunt and did not leave disappointed
Didn't really have a game plan,so I went back to my favourite haunt and did not leave disappointed
Thursday, May 3, 2012
...And some more Silver from GCF
After yesterday I thought I had to go back and try the same methods/settings
Came away with some more spendable money and a nice pendant
This is a nice size pendant(same size as $2 coin)
Came away with some more spendable money and a nice pendant
This is a nice size pendant(same size as $2 coin)
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
GCF produces more Silver
I have not been out in a while so I decided to go out to GCF for the umpteenth time this morning
I went for some deep detecting,digging all those iffy signals and it turns out it wasn't for nought :)
I am convinced there will be some gold jewellery there as well but as of yet I have just been doing the
higher conductivity stuff as there must be a kazillion pulltab signals there and I have to motivate
myself to go and dig them all to find the possible rings hidden amongst it
A nice chunk of .925 Silver
A lot of junky stuff as I was digging everything above my selected VDI
I went for some deep detecting,digging all those iffy signals and it turns out it wasn't for nought :)
I am convinced there will be some gold jewellery there as well but as of yet I have just been doing the
higher conductivity stuff as there must be a kazillion pulltab signals there and I have to motivate
myself to go and dig them all to find the possible rings hidden amongst it
A nice chunk of .925 Silver
A lot of junky stuff as I was digging everything above my selected VDI
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Some Silver and an Old pocket watch
I have not been out too much lately
So only a few things to show :)
The watch has an inscription and date on the back,I am trying to track down the owner but no luck so far and I don't fancy my chances seeing that he most likely would have been a young lad in the 1940-50s
Two similar Sterling Heart rings in the same week....bizarre :)
So only a few things to show :)
The watch has an inscription and date on the back,I am trying to track down the owner but no luck so far and I don't fancy my chances seeing that he most likely would have been a young lad in the 1940-50s
Two similar Sterling Heart rings in the same week....bizarre :)
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