Equanox 800 Wishfull

[Wishfull]

Hi finally got an hour out on the local beach and took little Miss chatter box with me while Mrs is working.

The beach is sooo quiet I had to recheck every now and the to make sure the nox was still working. Managed to find a lot of ring pulls and flagon and whiskey tops. A few .22 bullet shells. Then I found what I thought was a live.32/20 cartridge but turned out to be an old round nose .303 projectile that someone had pushed into a .32 ( I think ) shell that had been fired but the salt had removed any markings on it.
What was odd was that the .303 was fired from a left hand twist barrel.
After our free time was up we walked back to the car and little Miss picked up a 50 cent piece. who needs a metal detector when you have a kid with you.

I love the Nox 800. It's so easy to use. I was finding ring pulls at 12 inches deep and very loud.
If it was a coin you'd certainly pick it up.
Just need a big storm to wash the beach out, far too much sea weed and soft deep sand atm.

 

[Wishfull]

Spoke too soon.
Might get my wish about the storm hitting the beach this coming Monday.

 

[Bush Chook]

Wonder if that piece of case might be from a .310 Martini Cadet? It looks to be a rimmed, straight walled case, with about the correct dimensions judging from the .311 pill in it?

 

[Wishfull]

You could be right BC. Been a while since I did any reloading. Kind of lost track of all the dimension specifications. Still got my reloading books somewhere ? Looks too long for a 32/20 anyway.
Just thinking. You could be spot on. The area used to be a firing range for the defence force during ww2 .

What .303's rifles had the left hand twist ? Buggered if I can remember

 

[Bush Chook]

Range of barrels out there with LH twist, I thought some of those were SMLEs? Pretty popular in Europe. Though apparently not so much with US barrel makers.

 

[Wishfull]

Think I found the case. It was like you said. .310 cadet

I am wonderinf if the .303 was from a Martini Henry 303 rifle.They also had the .310 Cadet training rifle I think ??

 

[Bush Chook]

Maybe, esp. given that there was a combination of the two companies ('Martini Enfield') in between the Boer War and WWI. That's when the British Empire's troops started to get breech-loading cartridges in .303 cal.

 

[Wishfull]

Can anyone identify these cast thingos with the little handles, found Not by me but by a mate with his nox 800.

 

[Greenhornet_au]

They look like window catch/locks to me, pretty big comparing to the other items, but so were old windows.
Is that a door plaque next to the horse shoe ?

 

[Wishfull]

The "door plapue" has an inscription on it. Not sure what it says. It almost looks like a plaque you'd find on a coffin ?
Interestingly it and the rest of the items were found around 2 inches deep and a couple hundred yards way away from an old cemetary. No not in it.

 

[Greenhornet_au]

Mate, you have parts from a coffin ! :8

You are going to have a hard time explaining that 6' hole you dug, better sell the Nox 800, goes too deep. ( or "Your Mate's" )

Those are the ends of coffin handles, one brass bit on each end.....

Yes the plaque says 'At Rest'

 

[Dave79]

Coffin handles? Maybe one floated away in a flood.

 

[Wishfull]

Coffin handles...Really ?Why would they be that far away from a cement..aarr..y ? and so shallow ?

I'll pass on the info. Thanks guys :Y:

 

[Greenhornet_au]

I hope it isnt a childs coffin.

I heard somewhere, or read, that when a cemetery gets too full, they will dig up old graves to put in new coffins...

Maybe the cemetery was bigger in the past, and I have also heard that if not buried deep enough, if there is a lot of ground water
they can pop out of the soil with hydraulic pressure.

Spooky.

Nothing looks scorched, so not likely left overs from cremation

 

[Wally69]

Very unusual, by reading the finds I would say it is a coffin from a one legged horse who choked on a ring pull.

 

[Wishfull]

Very unusual, by reading the finds I would say it is a coffin from a one legged horse who choked on a ring pull.

What about the .303 blank then hmmmm

Bit spooky about the coffins rising to the surface. Chills down back.

I recon he ought to go put that stuff back.

 

[Wishfull]

Mate, you have parts from a coffin ! :8

You are going to have a hard time explaining that 6' hole you dug, better sell the Nox 800, goes too deep. ( or "Your Mate's" )

Those are the ends of coffin handles, one brass bit on each end.....

Yes the plaque says 'At Rest'

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/8767/1562833637_handles.jpg

Any idea how old those handle end bits would be ?

 

[Fossiker]

That is freaky Wishfull I thought door handles for sure until you mentioned the plaque at rest!

 

[Smoky bandit]

I WAS going to say nice find :8
But now I'd say RETURN IT BACK to its resting place and say 10 Hale Mary's
Then maybe you'll be ok :8

 

[Mackka]

Plus 4 Our Fathers and A Glory Be.
Doomed I think
Mackka