Finally found a snake buckle…the area had suffered flood damage with a lot of clay deposited from a slip which made detecting frustrating a silver 3p broke with a scratch from my fingernail
Had a crack at our local school, now it was founded around 1870 but so far oldest coins all around the 40,s there is a quite uniform 100mm layer of topsoil which leans towards filling around that time… luckily the caretaker is a mate and gives me the key to the gate anyway couple of stainless rings a 41 thrup a few coin spills of 1s an 2s
Did better than me - I mowed the lawn and washed the house
At least it cut down on the copper scrap
I’d look at the edges and any banks/slopes, esp up towards the back of the property… Pinpointer along the base of the buildings where the coil can’t go
It could be called cheating but last night work called they wanted our cleanfill site leaveled on the off chance I chucked the detector in the ute …there where 3 or 4 piles of old looking topsoil that I spread out and had a sweep mint 37 3d and magpies pin not to mention a lot off foil milk bottle tops funny I know the sound but I still dig them
thrup is a beaut,nice find
you find some great items nice
Love the shilling well done Chris.
Getting some nice pieces recently.
Ha nice to pull one after you and Roy striping the country of silver🙄
A lot of work …just about given up on the river finds from the first xcal spot
shilling looks good, it would be nice to find a pocket watch that was silver or even better gold…they seem to be thin on the ground
Any ideas same weight as a sinker but not lead IMG_20180819_130132|281x500
it’s non-ferrous and very hard???Ball bearing…
Na not steel… gave it a light scratch and it’s like Ali but heavier
Ball bearings are chrome steel I think.
I’d say a muskie that’s been in just the right conditions to set up a solid passivation layer. What’s the diameter?
It’s 15mm …
may be a lead substitute sinker i seem to remember something like tungsten putty
I found something similar in my last detect - still in my to sort junk pile.
Could be Antimony - sometimes it is mixed with lead, or used instead. Especially for home made (from scrap) fishing sinkers.