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Righto folks, I was just going through some jars of coins and thought Id finally open up a problem to the wealth of knowledge that I know exists at PA. Im going to include a photo of a boat propellor that I found a few years ago. It has a small split ring attached and from that alone, I thought...

Hi all. I came across a coupla crickets buckles yesterday while detecting so when I got home decided to find out a bit more about them. A guy called Brian Meilak has done an extensive study on a huge number of buckles ( the pdf file is 1680 pages) and can be found on the net, version 4. So for...

Every now and then we find a pearla, that sometimes is even more significant than a bunhead or KGV. My last "pearla" was a cruddy old button with much significance, because you see it even predates the recognised Militia of our area. The 81st Wakefield was formed and disbanded by 1914 and the...

I know Ive started this a few weeks early but hey, theres only a coupla weeks left if 2019, so I thought Id start this thread with todays find. With a new permission, I jagged a really great coin, an 1853 Halfpenny. Its pretty toasted and only able to be JUST recognised but here it is.

Its taken me about 3 yrs of research, asking question in the local community, patience and finally nurturing a relationship with the owners, but now I have access to a permission that Ive wanted to detect since I started. Yesterday was the first swing and it turned out ok, 3x Britannia pennies...

Ok folks lets hear your opinions. The scenario! There's a reef at the top of a slope. Part way down the old timers have dug and found gold. The question: So which stopped first, the big gold as it hung up on its travel down the hill or the small gold as it dropped out along the way. Really...

Found this at Creswick. It's about 32mm dia and maybe a mm thick.

Hi all, hey I'm detecting on red clay and I can't get my 4500 to run quiet. Any suggestions would help but please a little more than "play with the knobs". TIA. I guess I should say Ive set on Factory settings and I have the stock 11" commander coil on. I could change to my 14x9 advantage or a...

27 March 2013 06:48 pm My name's Tassie Daz and I come from South Australia. Yep, I know that's funny but we spent 20 years in Tassie not long ago and came back to SA only a few years ago. I must say that our hearts really are still in the apple isle and one day....... Anyway I've been...

Hi folks. Its my time of the year again where I get to cross the border and visit the great gold state of Victoria. So with all the stuff thats gone on of late, where can we go prospecting. Can I ask you if youd leave me where you live and if its ok to prospect around about your town. I dont...

Hi all. I was just cruising around the web and found a photo of an 1838 Groat....4 Pence. Question: Has anyone here in Australia ever found one, given that before 1910 it seems our monitary system seemed to encompass a number of different coins from a number of different countries? Just...

Ive been posting about this place since 2015, preferring to keep it quiet since first starting up my detector there.. Yesterday we came home from a coupla days at Bowman Park Crystal Brook and came to the realisation that its time to find a new "honey hole". Bowman Park has been extremely good...

Hi all. Im just putting this out there to see what you all think. Ive got 2 Garrett coils that have broken pins. Heres my plan. Is it possible to use the plug off my 4" coil and attach, say a Minelab 4 pin, both a plug and socket to make an adapter? I could then attach a plug end to the 4" and...

Hi folks, For those who are Garrett users and whove done repairs, can you help me please? While out for a dusk detect the other night I had my 8x5 coil play up, and so decided to put the Nel Thunder on. What I didn't know was that the pin from the 8x5 had broken and when I put the Nel on U...

I sent a submission to the Premier regarding the proposed Crown Lands closures and received this reply. Mr Rowley Thank you for taking the time to write to the Premier of Victoria regarding the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council Report into West Victoria. The Premier has asked me to...

A hillbilly went hunting one day in West Virginia and bagged three ducks. He put them in the bed of his pickup truck and was about to drive home where he was confronted by an ornery game warden who didnt like hillbillies.The game warden ordered to the hillbilly to show his hunting license, and...

I have been thinking on the moves to exclude prospectors from so many of the great goldfields, that something ocurred to me that perhaps might give us true leverage in the argument. I expect its already been touched on but maybe we should major on the fact that we are all doing our parts to...

We were on our last day before getting home from Victoria and 7 wks on the gold and we stopped into my fave place up north. Its a place that has been occupied for 150 yrs or so and over the last few years Ive taken heaps of coinage from it. So this time with just a short stopoff Id picked up...

I am reading "The goldfields of Victoria, 1862" and came across a section that raises a number of questions for me so can someone please provide the answers.....thanks in advance. Men came upon a "promising leader". what constitutes a promising leader? Men followed it up. How does one do...

There are times for all of us when we wish/hope for things and stuff gets in the way.....a car dies, a baby arrives, sickness occurs.....you know what I mean. Well since Ive been metal detecting Ive always hoped that one day I might own a Minelab. I couldnt afford the $'s in the beginning...