2017 detector finds

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golddiggerart said:
Heatho said:
Nice hunt mate and nice psychedelic mushroom (Amanita Muscaria) too. :D

Are they any good? You know like the Magic mushroom kind? hehehe
toying with death ,....
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Apparently there is another one similar that can kill you.
here's a bit about Santa. :lol:
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/christmas-magic-mushroom
 
golddiggerart said:
Heatho said:
Nice hunt mate and nice psychedelic mushroom (Amanita Muscaria) too. :D

Are they any good? You know like the Magic mushroom kind? hehehe

They can make you pretty crook I've heard. I certainly wouldn't eat them or any other wild mushrooms, it's really not worth the risk, as Silver said, toying with a horrible death.
 
Heatho said:
golddiggerart said:
Heatho said:
Nice hunt mate and nice psychedelic mushroom (Amanita Muscaria) too. :D

Are they any good? You know like the Magic mushroom kind? hehehe

They can make you pretty crook I've heard. I certainly wouldn't eat them or any other wild mushrooms, it's really not worth the risk, as Silver said, toying with a horrible death.

I eat almost anything except those type of mushrooms and a few others, it's all good mate I was brought up in the country/bush and know which mushrooms, plants that I can eat. :) :Y:
 
As promised, a last ditch detect at the school site for the week, amazing what you can find in a rather small area if you take your time and listen carefully. Didn't dip into the Victorian coins this time, though the early 1900's coppers come out in reasonable condition - 1922 penny, & 1917/1914 half pennies. The small lid above the penny is for an English needle container, might be the second one of those found so far.

The Deus is killing it on the buttons with the low conductor friendly high frequencies, came up with a few newr pristine examples today. I can't get over how good this coil is in iron, it just nails any non-ferrous gear that happens to be fully or partly masked on previous trips! Catch you next week sometime. :)

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ktmman said:
Many a good find there Goldpick,knees must be feeling it from all the digging you did.

I actually took it pretty easy today, probably only totalled a couple hours of straight detecting, as most of the finds were contained within a relatively small area.

Best to have a bit of fun vs flogging yourself to death. ;)
 
Smoky bandit said:
You must have a lower back the size of a scrub bull mate :eek: :D ...Well done :Y: :lol: What do you put on your finds to preserve them GP

I'm too cautious of using my detecting shovels in sensitive areas where delicate and older finds may be found, hence only use hand tools and a bit of elbow grease. If anything, I reckon my knees will be first casualty of detecting vs my lower back, especially if recovering of 60-80 targets during a session.

The coppers are just cleaned up with some water, dried, and lightly coated with some olive oil - tends to being out the detail in photos. :)
 
Danny13 said:
Goldpick how good is your site , nice chain , any idea what it's made from!

Probably some sort of copper alloy with gold gilt, typical Victorian era stuff that you find on most of these sites - just the same as what I found today, except with more pretty stones. :D

And with that cue we come to todays hunt, a combo over two now defunct railway sidings. I'd sort of given up detecting both spots due to imposssible to penetrate vegetation, and a general feeling of there not being much more to offer.

The mission of the day was to run purely on 54kHz to see what was left behind in the low conductor range. This frequency really allows thin and small targets to punch through loud and clear, sometimes resulting in a rather loud tone from a stupidly small targets (flattened lead slugs, thin copper flakes, .22 casings, part shotgun cartridge ends, primers and wire etc). Whilst only one coin was found (1917 penny), it was a really good exercise to see what interesting small targets would crop up, as most would consider such items as "junk", when in reality they paint a broader picture on those who used to frequent the railways.

Copper rivets, boot eyelets, suitcase parts and tarp rivets are common place on such sites, though the one target that might have been missed on a lower frequency was the gold gilt bracelet with clear stones, a pretty cool find in my book. Not sure where I will head tomorrow, probably back to another old house site that hasn't seen the use of the HF coil as yet. :)

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Ramjet said:
DAMN GP. You get as many great finds in a day as the rest of us get in a week! :D :Y:

You guys get the coins, I get the relics! ;) It is funny how during the course of the day you don't think you have many finds for the time spent there, then you get home and sort through all the little bits and pieces and realise that you had in fact been quite busy. :D
 
Goldpick said:
I did something stupid today, when I realised one of the larger stones was missing from the bracelet, I rechecked the hole with the pinpointer for it - doh, think that was a bit of a seniors monment. :lol:

LOL Maybe digging out the soil and passing it through a sieve would produce the goods? :eek:
 
If it was a solid gold bracelet, might have been worth it, though not in this case unfortunately.

Also forgot to mention that I bent one of the prongs on the charging clip this morning. Still seems work ok - the plastic on the new coil seem a bit thicker than on the previous ones, and can be a pain to fit the clip over it. Lucky I always keep a spare clip on hand for such occasions, I keep one at home for the mains charger, and one in the Deus case for field charging (never had the need to do that yet). Probably a good investment for others to have a spare as well.
 
Very good
Another productive hunt
What do you think the twisted thing in the top left corner is ?
I often get them , got 2 on the weekend
 

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