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We planned to wake up at 6 am for a long travel to what was advertised as a picturesque picnic location. I was trying to crack a treasure map when our alarm clock went off 
. I heard it ringing like h%ll but it did not wake me up completely. When finally I opened my eyes it was already 9 am. We packed our ice box but never made it to a picnic that day because after 3-hour-drive we spotted an overgrown field with a faint outline of an oval. We decided to check it because an oval looked like a small racecourse. We hit few little open spaces where it was still possible to swing our coil. The beeper immediately screamed big but it was only a corroded 1912 ½ penny coin lying on the surface. The soil is parched here because of a drought which made our digging quite an exercise. I reckon it’s very similar to recovering targets from a frozen ground. Sometimes it comes at a price of scratching things. That’s exactly what I did to 1 penny of 1917. Later we added to our very modest loot 3pence of 1900, 6pence of 1906 and a bent ½ penny of 1908. A tiny horse head and shoe charm stamped on the back ST.SILVER broke the sequence of coins and disintegrated what-ifs. I can just imagine some jockey or a gambling farmer losing it. Other non-coin keeper this time was a decorative belt buckle. The strangest find for us happened to be a yang and yin enamel and brass charm. It seems to be silver plated once. Though it has that Chinese motif, its frame is elongated as in European jewellery. Really cannot place that one 
. We were about to drive back when we saw something glistening under the tree. There we picked up an amethyst glass lavender oil (?) bottle ca 1900-1920 filled with dry soil. I spent some time cleaning it.
. I heard it ringing like h%ll but it did not wake me up completely. When finally I opened my eyes it was already 9 am. We packed our ice box but never made it to a picnic that day because after 3-hour-drive we spotted an overgrown field with a faint outline of an oval. We decided to check it because an oval looked like a small racecourse. We hit few little open spaces where it was still possible to swing our coil. The beeper immediately screamed big but it was only a corroded 1912 ½ penny coin lying on the surface. The soil is parched here because of a drought which made our digging quite an exercise. I reckon it’s very similar to recovering targets from a frozen ground. Sometimes it comes at a price of scratching things. That’s exactly what I did to 1 penny of 1917. Later we added to our very modest loot 3pence of 1900, 6pence of 1906 and a bent ½ penny of 1908. A tiny horse head and shoe charm stamped on the back ST.SILVER broke the sequence of coins and disintegrated what-ifs. I can just imagine some jockey or a gambling farmer losing it. Other non-coin keeper this time was a decorative belt buckle. The strangest find for us happened to be a yang and yin enamel and brass charm. It seems to be silver plated once. Though it has that Chinese motif, its frame is elongated as in European jewellery. Really cannot place that one . We were about to drive back when we saw something glistening under the tree. There we picked up an amethyst glass lavender oil (?) bottle ca 1900-1920 filled with dry soil. I spent some time cleaning it.
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that small bottle looks like a lead crystal salt shaker ? Good Hunt Jim
I like the "yin and yang "pendant 
Keep up the good work!!!!
