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Goldtarget said:
Still drooling.....love the badges, anything old and interesting. More goldies....I would have had a day off work by now if It were me and this spot was in driving distance :D
It will be a sad day indeed when it's finished, stuff of grandpa tales......"Well when I was metal detecting back in the teens there was this one spot....."

Has been a sensational spot GT, will post some pictures of thhe area up soon just to give you an idea of the size and scale of the place. Bet there's still plenty of good stuff left there, I'll keep revisiting it, especially over footy season.
 
Ramjet said:
Heatho said:
Ramjet said:
Nice work Heath. The RAAF badge is cool.

Hah, just went back through your thread and well, yours is in great condition campared to mine. :D Classic they came out of the ground in quick succession.

It's my 2nd one and they are not exactly the same.

Yes definitely differences mate, I think yours is the airmans and mine is a groundcrew one from what I've read. Was the last thing I was expecting to dig up there.

Are yours both different RJ?
 
Yes they are different. Neither of mine was anywhere near an airfield either.

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This one shows the differences better.

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Another day another few dollars. Got out for a few hours this morning, was going pretty slow until I hit a small patch of pre decimals, the Shilling is the grottiest I've found yet, we'll see if the citric acid and bi-carb will fix it up. Got a sterling silver ring on the way back to the car too, it's soaking in the CAB as well. Took a few shots of the place I've been detecting for the last 6 months, I'm not really bothered if anyone recognises it, plenty of space for others to detect and I think I've had my fair share from it. :)

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good to see you out battling the heat Heath for some great silver :cool:

Looks like a 21/22 overdate HP as well :eek:
 
Wally69 said:
good to see you out battling the heat Heath for some great silver :cool:

Looks like a 21/22 overdate HP as well :eek:

Yeah it is pretty warm today for sure. Hmmm will go have a closer look at that HP. Still a few silvers there, hopefully more gold soon, that would be really nice.
 
1923 hp is the year to get,.... might be a beautiful shilling in under that crud.
nice ring too,... happy face design. :D
 
The treeline looks like a sweet area to detect around. Have you ever managed to find some old photos or info on what used to be there before the ovals existed? :)
 
Man that's a huge expanse. I'm actually I bit surprised I would take a while to figure out where to start, my normal go to plan is start the tree shaded areas and work outwards and grid up after that. I'd be there for a year on that lot.
 
The Shilling is still not doing too well Silver, though might need a few days in it. :)

Cheers Numpty.

Gp, no mate I wouldn't have a clue what was there originally, I've been using a Sydney 1943 air map overlay on Sixmap, it shows it as a cricket oval in 1943, there are market gardens nearby and a creek. Might have been a swamp, though one council worker mentioned to me that it may have originally been a landfill site, still would not have a clue if he's right or not. Have found plenty along the treeline with the dirtpile, the treeline on the other side is pretty much a creek bank, I reckon there should be old coins there but I'm betting it's full of Paralysis Ticks and I'm not going in there. :)

The dirtpile side treeline has produced heaps of pre decimals, moderns, including the 2 gold rings and about 6 siver rings from that oval. Pretty much the whole oval has pockets of stuff, in winter it's divided up into soccer and footy fields with 100's of people congregating the sidelines there each weekend.

GT, it was difficult to work out where to start, at first I was wandering up and down the marked footy sidelines as that's where most stuff like modern coins and silver rings have been, then since spring the sidelines aren't marked so I wandered around a bit looking for patches, then gridding the patches until finds ran out and then moving on to new patches. The last 2 months I've been religiously doing the tree area from the dirtpile up and down, finished it now though. Around the dirtpile must have yielded about 50 silvers, including the ones from a few days back.

I've spent about 6 months doing this spot a few days a week and I reckon there is still a lot left to do. So far I reckon this site has given me 1/2 kilo of silvers and about 20 silver rings, plus 2 gold and about $1500 in goldies. :)
 
Ramjet said:
Keep diggin Heath. The rest of the Beamer may be down there. I reckon I know ya spot too ;)

Yeah would be nice to find the rest of the Beamer. :)

It's a pretty recognisable place if you've been past it.
 

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