Heads up and eyes down

[user 7268]

Was in Castlemaine yesterday ................. sadly not for pleasure, and caught up with an old school mate who has been bottle and relic hunting for 40 odd years. He was doing a bit of detecting below Pennyweight flat cemetery and got a target that when dug up was a gold sovereign .................. ripper he thought :Y: Took two more steps and another target a nice little ounce nugget He reckons odds on the same bloke lost both One can bet that bloke wasn't so happy :N:
Bottom line it's still out there and I'll be heading back real soon as eager as to explore the relatively untouched areas

 

[NeilM]

Go now Bogger

Might be a few rushing there right now

 

[user 7268]

Go now Bogger

Might be a few rushing there right now

You might be right I reckon :Y: In saying that the area that we knew as Nobbies farm thru to the pine plantation past the rifle range is a lot of ground to cover just in the Pennyweight area alone.
Having grown up there school mates and family own a lot land in the area. :Y: :Y: :Y: :Y: When I asked a few had any done their backyards the answer was and I quote " Only the one's that have climbed the fence at night " I though they were kidding at first but then a few stories were told of the funny escapades of evicting them. There are some cheeky buggers out there and probably explains why there are a lot of locked gates

 

[nuggetino]

Wow talk about a good day out I'd love to see pics of those finds.

I just got back from a trip to coffs harbour (drove from Adelaide) and I noticed the locked gates and signs as I made my way through goldfield areas. There was even a manequin hanging from a tree with a noose around it's neck and blood painted on with a keep out sign beneath it.

 

[Heatho]

Lucky bugger. :Y:

Some days yer hot and some yer not.

 

[user 7268]

Lucky bugger. :Y:

Some days yer hot and some yer not.

Some other good ones was apparently the top of an old tooth paste tube .................... has a top made out of ceramic but apparently was sold for $2500 :Y: His best find he reckons was a bottle at a garage sale he purchased for $20 ................... sold $5700 This bloke has been doing it since year dot so knows exactly what he's looking at They do say Gold is where you find it .............................. even be it a garage sale

This was the type of ceramic top he found ....................... @ over 2.5K certainly worth keeping an eye out for :Y:

 

[RM Outback]

Had a bloke visit our CFA stall one day who bought a small ceramic vase. He asked my wife how much she said make an offer its for our local CFA he offered 50 cents which the wife took. Then the cheeky scumbag said I'll get $120.00 for that on ebay :N:.