So, What Sorts Of Strange Things Have You Found In Your Sluice Bed/Highbanker/Dredg??

[John-Edmonton]

Lots of weird things show up when we are highbanking or dredging....So far (this year anyways) I have found about 5 coins, a dino bone, the usual petrified would and a sock!

 

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[Goldwasher]

sock... lol

 

[N-Lionberger]

just the usual stuff lead weights, bullets, fishing tackle, spare change, gold hoop earing, nuts/bolts, square nails, round nails, unidentifiable hunks of iron etc...

 

[okbasspro]

My mining partners ring

 

[John-Edmonton]

My mining partners ring

Seriously? Man.........I bet he was excited.

 

[N-Lionberger]

pieces of hardware from the dredge itself is always fun...

 

[mendoAu]

A typewriter....but it wouldn't go up the nozzle.

 

[calnatv]

Nothing strange. Square nails, boot tacks, lots of lead and a screwdriver that I apparently lost the year before

 

[Goldwasher]

Nothing strange. Square nails, boot tacks, lots of lead and a screwdriver that I apparently lost the year before

yes, re-finding your tools is always a bonus

 

[rodoconnor]

A took a sample to pan before setting up my dredge. In that first pan I found a ruby ring surrounded with clusters of [very small ] diamonds . I'll take it any way I can get it !

 

[njcommercialdiver]

ive sucked up matchboxes, small tin toys, lots of square head nails, change, nuts bolts, bullets and lead shot (even a live 22 once. in washington on this last trip, we had a "tips" pile of lead that every time we looked at the box, we picked out the bullets, there was prob a 1/4lb by end of trip) a gold plated "carlos" with a playboy bunny emblem on the one edge dogtag type necklace , emeralds, garnets and rubys in north carolina, and other misc blobs of rusted steel. i also once found a small heavy rock that might be a meteorite

 

[John-Edmonton]

ive sucked up matchboxes, small tin toys, lots of square head nails, change, nuts bolts, bullets and lead shot (even a live 22 once. in washington on this last trip, we had a "tips" pile of lead that every time we looked at the box, we picked out the bullets, there was prob a 1/4lb by end of trip) a gold plated "carlos" with a playboy bunny emblem on the one edge dogtag type necklace , emeralds, garnets and rubys in north carolina, and other misc blobs of rusted steel. i also once found a small heavy rock that might be a meteorite

It would be worth your while to go over that/near area with a metal detector. That's incredible that you found all that

 

[Bodfish Mike]

Sluicing I have found an old Levis jeans rivet marked SF, old bullets from I think the 1800 hundreds

Drywashing -- scorpions, centipedes, arrow heads and lots of lead shot
Still looking for GOLD

 

[njcommercialdiver]

John, thats not all at one spot

 

[Hoser John]

A old piece of eight, hole drilled in it, and part of a gold chain it was on was pretty strange.Anything from old guns to old axels. John

 

[rodoconnor]

Good to hear from you John. With the raging inferno and all . Hope you came out OK