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madsonicboating  
Posted : Wednesday, 31 August 2011 2:33:01 AM(UTC)
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I love digging for bottles. Trouble these days is finding spots that havn't been dug and filled with broken crap!

Here's a few...
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Posted : Wednesday, 31 August 2011 8:30:40 AM(UTC)
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thats a good collection to dan..WTG
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Posted : Wednesday, 31 August 2011 11:03:01 AM(UTC)
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nice bottles mate. finding old bottles intact is harder than finding gold around these parts. most bottles got chucked over steep rocky banks and broke, or got broke later in slips, floods etc. and digging for bottles around old sites in these parts would probably be asking for a bullet from the historic sect.

while sluicing i'm always on the look out for treasures. got a 1848 silver coin out of the sluicebox earlier this year. had been trapped with a bit of other heavy metal at the bottom of a small waterfall i dug out. might post a pic later of the coin. hard to find around the goldfields as i guess most miners used gold as currency, or anything lost went straight to the bottom of the river!
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