Bit of a late night park detect tonight. Did a lot of gridding and came up with plenty of coppers, military button and a couple of small silvers. Was heading back to the car lazily swinging on the way, and got a boomer of a signal, was surprised with a surface florin find. Next to that florin I had another high conductor target at depth, pulled out a penny, re-detected the hole and yet another high tone - yet another florin. I'm knackered and off to bed!
Just a short outing today, quite frankly I wasn't really in the right frame of mind to go detecting, was hoping a good find might cheer me up a bit.
Today my travels took me to an old house site fronting onto a former railway track, dating back I guess into the Victorian era. The first hour came up with nothing other than the usual shotgun shells and .22 cartridges, plus a few lamp/clock parts and a pair of buttons. I was nearly going to hewd home when I noticed that the other side of the railway track had been ploughed recently as a fire break - what the heck, may as well give it a go. After about 20 metres of gridding, bang, a very tasty high tone. Thought it might have been a half penny, instead another bucket lister - my first ever Farthing, and an early Victorian example from 1840. Afterwards the firebreak only produced a solitary buckle, but that Farthing alone was enough to pack up and head home completely satisfied!
Reckon I might leave the coin as is, might be the only Farthing I ever find, especially from that era. The Farthing predates local settlement, and Adelaide was only settled 4 years prior, so a pretty rare find around here.