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Some of the more interesting objects recovered from trip 178. Note the bling sinker complete with a stone still attached.




3 unidentified finds brought home for investigation. The tarseal was harbouring a ring pull! One was a 1936 UK Penny and the other an old English BB padlock.


The padlock and penny were found alongside an old latch. Im wondering if these three items are related and for the story i would guess so. There was another large object detected nearby but i gave up digging for it after a while. Looking back im thinking i hope that wasn't the chest these items came from.


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Edited by user Monday, 19 January 2015 1:37:46 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

very unique finds, obviously from a very unique spot. Well done.

looks a great harbour would have been busy with trading ships back in the day,witch means sailors with money ships buying supplies look for undisturbed land close to the port traders would have gone to the ships to sell there goods,all deals would have been in cash, iam sure they will have dropped bits and pieces for you to find good look

I;d be happy with a Brown Bess.

...the gun, not the girl.

My apologies if this post is a little bit of of topic. But can I recommend this the book Cannibal Jack by Trevor Bentley for a bit of history of the area and a clue for mudwiggle on page 74 of the kind of place to look for a long forgot musket.

Edited by user Tuesday, 20 January 2015 9:59:57 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Caring is sharing
Off to Doubtless Bay today to recover what we could from my better halfs stolen car. Her favourite cd and jumper leads were about it and thats where that story ends.

Whilst there we planned to walk the local beach with Ace and the new Xpointer to see what we could see, was a tad windy but a good time all the same. As i buzzed for hits she would dig around with the pointer to make the finds and it all worked out well. Not many top hits but quite a few iron signals so we dug them to find a few rusty modern coins 10c, 20c and 50c. Not much into diggin iron signals but do from time to time.
So we're cruisin along and we dig this signal to find an electrical cable, wasnt sure if it was the right target at first but the Xpointer said it was. Scratching our heads we look over yonder at this sign which spieled the history of the worlds longest cable reaching Queensland so i prompted a pic to go.

Trip # 179
1 goldie, 13 coins all up.





The underground cable had some dings in it so i guess we weren't the only ones to find it.





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Edited by user Monday, 23 February 2015 7:40:07 PM(UTC)  | Reason: HDDD (High Definition Detecting Disorder)

hi been there many times caught some lovely snapper there 20 years ago cant see any dates on the coins looks like there is some oldies there 1875h and 1876h are the pennies to have also 1919h nice effort.

Hi all.
My brother in law was looking through my finds when he noticed an item i thought was a bag tag or similiar marked the Bay of Islands.
He went on to say that it was a 2 cent coin. The story is there is a machine on the side walk that you put a 2 cent piece into. You then start rolling the handle and it presses the coin into an oval shape and also impresses the design on it. You keep rolling and it then punches two holes in the coin.
I couldnt quite believe it but he assured me that was the case.
There must have been more of these machines around NZ so there must be other designs out there.




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Yeah still around, one machine at Willowbrook wildlife park in Christchurch, I've also found a few Kelly tarlton one's here in Christchurch parks

All good Mudwiggle.
Im wondering if they ever rolled a 2 cent piece at all, or did they just roll a copper disc all this time.

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