Spent a few hours today going over ground I had already worked several times, with the following results: 1c and 2c coins, a 1956 1d, 1928 3d, 1947 3d, 1948 1/- and a very corroded Q Vic veiled head 1895 - 1901 penny ( no date ).
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Was the ground wetter than the previous times you hunted it Howard ? Makes a big difference with vlf . The Nox with it’s multi freq also has a habit of finding stuff left behind by earlier machines .
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Hi Curt, the ground has been a fair bit wetter since the last time I detected that area. A few days ago we had 38mm of rain here. I ended the day with a pocket full of aluminium pull tabs and ring pulls plus screw caps and copper wire but I was pretty happy with my coin haul for the day.
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Good stuff Howard . If your digging those targets gold jewelry and gold coins are a possibility . I keep all brass , copper and lead to sell to Sims . It’s amazing how the $ pile up ! See you Saturday , with a raincoat it seems .
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I managed to find this silver broach in a local park that I’ve been over plenty of times before. This time I tried the 4kHz mode and it seems to cut out a lot of the chatter from mowed up cans that this spot is full of.
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Rippa find Dave ! Congrats .
Was pretty happy to find a complete powder flask last week.
And a dog tag that’s a hundred years older than the ones I’ve found on the beach.
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Well done getting a powder flask Dave , they don’t turn up to often . No sign of the top for it ? Nice old dog tag too .
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I found another half flask the other day. I previously found a top piece. It opens the flask for loading powder into a gun. A little trigger slides a small cover to open it. There are spring loaded designs as well.
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Nah, looks like Karl got it! Mine was squashed flat. I guess that’s why it got thrown away.
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You blokes are getting into some good stuff . Karl looks to have the sides from two different flasks there . Being thin brass they are nearly always squashed flat . The upper side of that powder gate is actually the part hidden in the powder flask . The trigger like piece underneath was spring loaded and there was also a spout as well . Most i have found have had the spout missing . My guess is that the spout sometimes became loose and unscrewed to become lost . Then the flask was pretty useless so was tossed . Also many flasks must have been thrown away as smokeless powder and cartridge ammunition overtook the muzzle loaders .
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I didn’t manage to find an old brass padlock in my first 2 years detecting but lately they are popping up everywhere!
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Maybe a cufflink if it’s small enough, but a bit of a strange one to be sure.
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For a pocket watch maybe ?
I thought maybe a lapel pin
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Wow, that really is in top condition, well done!
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