Deus & Racer 2 finds for 2016

[rocketaroo]

Latest you tube clip as promised Rocket - Full HD! No exciting coins, just a few buttons, relic items and some ripped pants.

[video=480,360]http://youtu.be/UvHi5TWZrak[/video]

how did I miss this, great vid GP

 

[rocketaroo]

Wow...that's hell of a plug!

could make it bigger, and drop you in it lol Na thats absolutely fine, owner dug em, watch some usa vids, plugs big enough to swim in.

 

[silver]

Nice silvers, don't even need cleaning ,... good ground !

 

[Goldpick]

Wow...that's hell of a plug!

I looked on in horror when I saw him dig that. I started using the raptor initially, then he just grabbed a spade and started ripping into it. Guess he was eager to find some treasures on his spare block.

It's not a plug, it's called a mat!

 

[Goldpick]

I had trouble again with my WS4 yesterday, it would turn on and connect to the coil, but no audio. Tried several times to reconnect to both coils, without success on the audio side of things.

Felt like a bit of a dumbass when I got home, the WS4 remote wasn't fully clicked into position into the backphones.

 

[Goldpick]

Bit of a miserable day today, but headed out anyway to try my luck at a new spot I had been researching. Upon unpacking the Deus from its case, I realised that I had left the main control box at home, probably not a bad thing due to the rain, so I ran with just the WS4's for the arvo and did some "wiggle back the coil" pinpointing practice.

Initially most of the site came up with nothing but a ton of iron signals, and not many good non-ferrous targets in between. So I headed a bit further away from the site and discovered a fair bit of broken china and glass lying around in the topsoil.

After initially running with the 11" coil in the junkier areas, I swapped back to the 13x11" for a bit more coverage over the less junkier ground. For a large coil it sure has no problems picking out the smaller non-ferrous targets, very happy with that purchase so far.

First good target was an Excelsior button which held some promise for the ground I was on, so I started gridding and the targets started to flow. I had a good variety of buttons, including Austrailan Military Forces, The Alma button, another two Excelsiors and a Suspender button. A good high tone target close to the surface proved to be an ornate silver pendant of sorts, not really sure what it came off. By far the best find of the day was quite a faint high tone due to sitting on edge, but was overjoyed to find an Edward VII Coronation medallion come out of the hole in pretty good condition. It appears to have been gold gilded at one stage.

The large copper tag is from Oakamoor in the UK, and belongs to Thomas Boltons copperworks - they supplied copper wire for the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The smaller broken copper disc if "Colonial Made Wire Netting - Sydney, NSW", from around the late 1800's era. Other items included a fob watch back, ornate handles, tea strainer, buckles, harmonica parts etc etc.

Still more ground to cover there, though looks like the site has already been hit previously on the coin front, the site would be a common target for local detectorists.

Stick and a coil for the day

 

[B5MECH]

Awesome hunt GP, cool stuff in that area!

 

[Sandta]

Well done mate
I love that commemorative medalion .... Brilliant condition
Nice selection of buttons too
pleasant surprises when you least expected much

 

[rocketaroo]

top assortment of relics, coins are glaringly missing, mustave been cherry picked! We dont seem to find many buttons, or we reject them as trashy signals? I dunno, but none of us seem to get many.

 

[Goldpick]

As it turns out, there were coins at that site, just had to do some recce work to find them.

So today we headed back to the same spot to see what else it had to offer, and one isolated area came up with the goods. First coin from the Deus was a 1900 Veilhead Victorian Sixpence, followd by an Edward VII 1910 Sixpence not a metre away. Mrs Goldpick hit both a Veilhead 1897 Victorian, and a Young head 1887 Victorian penny about five metres away from myself with the Teknetics G2 and NEL Hunter.

Gridding up the area produces only two more coins, a 1907 Edward VII penny, and a 1916 half penny. Amazingly only one button was found, despite digging all low-med conductors. One nice little find was a copper flower pin, I really like this type of period jewellery, and if you don't dig low conductors, you will miss out.

Also picked up a very cool cobalt blue bottle (albeit a very small one), it was only partially exposed, and was surprised to see it completely intact. It is labelled Blackwood &Co, 18 Bread St Hill, London, they were a major Ink manufacturer at the time. (Bottle is circa 1890-1900)

Still lots of areas left to explore, ideal for a larger coil to help locate producing ground. Judging by the tarpaulin rings, there may have been a few bush camps around the place, hence the isolated coin groupings away from the main area of focus.

Secret file!

Lonely Excelsior button

 

[Heatho]

Top hunt GP, that bottle is lovely. Reminds me of Inverell blue sapphire.

 

[rocketaroo]

thats better

 

[Wally69]

Massive day out GP, got to be happy with that

 

[Mackka]

I also love the little bottle, its in great shape.
Mackka

 

[Goldpick]

This afternoon I hit a different spot that many other detectorists regularly target, and was interested to see what I could pull out of it with the Deus. There were fresh detector holes all over the place, so I wasn't expecting a huge amount of good finds, though I needn't be worried. First target I hit after leaving my vehicle was a boomer of a signal sitting between two detector holes, god knows how they missed it. That turned out to be a larger version of the Victorian penny from 1855. Not far away from that coin, an 1877 Victorian penny surfaced from around the base of some trees.

The middle part of the hunt consisted of a variety of relics, including fob watch parts, buckles, a decorated copper pendant, spoons, lamp parts, shotgun shells and other assorted bits and pieces.

Towards the latter part of the afternoon I picked up a concave 1876 Victorian penny, don't know what happened to it, but it looks to have been struck hard on the face for some reason??

Next came an 1889-1890 SA dog tag, love finding those as they are quite sought after and unique. Little did I know that one of the last targets of the day thought to be low conductor junk (too dirty to make out in the field), in fact turned out to be a beautiful gold gilded thimble - probably the best I have ever found and in brilliant condition.

Sorry about some of the blurry pics, my phone camera wasn't playing ball today (probably more like the operator).

Big penny at the bottom of the hole!

Finds ready for a clean, see the thimble on the far right of the pic!

Total finds for the day

 

[rocketaroo]

excellent hunt, those other guys missed alot!

 

[Goldpick]

excellent hunt, those other guys missed alot!

Some people aren't very thorough, nor do they have a plan for detecting such sites (wandering around aimlessly in hope of jagging a coin). You must grid up these sites, or you will leave good targets in the ground. Run too much discrimination or only dig high conductors, and you will miss out onlow/mid conductor items like that thimble.

There was also a fair bit of iron around the place, I don't hear most of it due to being discriminated out, though you do get the odd larger piece popping through every now and again (easy to ID). The Deus really thrives on these types of sites.

 

[Dave law]

Are you sure they were detectorists? Maybe wild wabbits. Lol. Either way bet you are glad they were hopeless. Top hunt. Cheers.

 

[Sandta]

Well rewarded with some nice finds GP
'Others not very thorough'? ....
They must not have had their detectors turned on

 

[Don C]

Great finds on old ground Goldpick. What kind of a detector where you using?