Went to my bosses properties (Condobolin) on the school holidays with the family. Originally I was hoping to find some yellow stuff but not to be, however I did find some interesting relics that (to me) are as good as the yellow stuff.
The boss has three blocks of dirt, one being 12,550 acres and the other two around 4000 acres each. The larger of the three is of historic value as the Cobb and Co postal run went through the site and there was a Inn (pub) on the site which operated between 1876 and ceased in 1895. The pub is no longer standing but there is a plaque to ID the area.
One of the smaller blocks has an area that is part of an 99 year lease (State Forest) and there is an old cottage that was built by an old WW2 digger and was originally inssued to him as part of the governments settlement program (bloody hard country for farming).
Some of my finds from the old digger's farm, all from a dry creek that was full of wire too
I did find his old bottle dump and have so old-ish bottles soaking for a clean up, I lot of unbroken bottles too.
The next items come from the old pub (Inn) that operated between 1876 to 1895. The interesting find here was a by-product on an sewing thimble, that being a piece of a clay tobacco pipe. The fragment of the bowl had wording (Iniskilling, Egypt) that enabled us to Google it's origin to a battle against the French at Alexandria 1801. See below text from a web site about the origin
By all accounts, they had a fierce reputation and were awarded numerous battle honours during their long history of service the sphinx image and reference to Egypt impressed on the bowl of our tobacco pipe represent honours awarded to the regiment for the battle against the French at Alexandria in 1801.
The next picture is of a mystery item found at the same site, it appears to be made of cast and is not magnetic. The rusty area you can see on one of the photos is iron and magnetic. There are some numbering on both separate items but I haven't looked at them with a magnification lenses as yet, may be someone might have an idea what it may be??
Anyway, no gold but some interesting stuff, looking forward to going back to see if I can find some more. :lol:
The boss has three blocks of dirt, one being 12,550 acres and the other two around 4000 acres each. The larger of the three is of historic value as the Cobb and Co postal run went through the site and there was a Inn (pub) on the site which operated between 1876 and ceased in 1895. The pub is no longer standing but there is a plaque to ID the area.
One of the smaller blocks has an area that is part of an 99 year lease (State Forest) and there is an old cottage that was built by an old WW2 digger and was originally inssued to him as part of the governments settlement program (bloody hard country for farming).
Some of my finds from the old digger's farm, all from a dry creek that was full of wire too
I did find his old bottle dump and have so old-ish bottles soaking for a clean up, I lot of unbroken bottles too.
The next items come from the old pub (Inn) that operated between 1876 to 1895. The interesting find here was a by-product on an sewing thimble, that being a piece of a clay tobacco pipe. The fragment of the bowl had wording (Iniskilling, Egypt) that enabled us to Google it's origin to a battle against the French at Alexandria 1801. See below text from a web site about the origin
By all accounts, they had a fierce reputation and were awarded numerous battle honours during their long history of service the sphinx image and reference to Egypt impressed on the bowl of our tobacco pipe represent honours awarded to the regiment for the battle against the French at Alexandria in 1801.
The next picture is of a mystery item found at the same site, it appears to be made of cast and is not magnetic. The rusty area you can see on one of the photos is iron and magnetic. There are some numbering on both separate items but I haven't looked at them with a magnification lenses as yet, may be someone might have an idea what it may be??
Anyway, no gold but some interesting stuff, looking forward to going back to see if I can find some more. :lol:
