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[Chilli]

An old protractor. 10 acres and iv gone this way, that way and its been scun by illegal hunters.
Our backyard that once had an old gold lead run through it.
The old guy who lives over the road told me that when this place got sold it was vacant for several months, roughly 11 yrs ago. He said as soon as the previous owners moved out people were there nearly every day, sometimes on moonlit nights too. The new owners had not given permission to anyone and never new what was going on as nobody knew who to contact. Old guy said it went on for nearly 2 months. Its the most signal scarce place like this iv detected. I was really expecting to find some good finds. Alas, not to be.
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[pepperj]

An old protractor. 10 acres and iv gone this way, that way and its been scun by illegal hunters.
Our backyard that once had an old gold lead run through it.
The old guy who lives over the road told me that when this place got sold it was vacant for several months, roughly 11 yrs ago. He said as soon as the previous owners moved out people were there nearly every day, sometimes on moonlit nights too. The new owners had not given permission to anyone and never new what was going on as nobody knew who to contact. Old guy said it went on for nearly 2 months. Its the most signal scarce place like this iv detected. I was really expecting to find some good finds. Alas, not to be.
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Bloody nighthawkers really cleaned it out.

 

[Chilli]

Bloody nighthawkers really cleaned it out.

Did they ever. They must have bagged every signal to check later. That's the only explanation for there being so few if any targets.
Im due for a decent find soon, so id like to think.
Bad weather here now, next week im looking forward to a day out somewhere nice though.

 

[luke_00]

At first glance, I thought a set of pennyweight scales. Makes sense to be found in gold country.

 

[Chilli]

At first glance, I thought a set of pennyweight scales. Makes sense to be found in gold country.

Now I would for sure be happy if it was those in your picture.

 

[billb]

Chilli
G morning mate
I’m sure there’s some more gold nuggets close by
Pretty soon Spring is around the corner

 

[Gare]

Keep up the digging and good luck BTW a protractor. is used for measuring angles a compass is used for making circles

 

[Tpmetal]

Hate to be that guy, but that is a compass not a protractor. Bummer that it was hit hard before you got there.

 

[jewelerguy]

the place could have likely been void of targets to begin with. I feel most any nighthawk hunters trespassing there would have likely left or skipped the trash . So, in my opinion if you're not finding any trash, there might not have been much there to begin with

 

[Chilli]

Hate to be that guy, but that is a compass not a protractor. Bummer that it was hit hard before you got there.

Ahh, stupid google lens 😒

 

[Chilli]

the place could have likely been void of targets to begin with. I feel most any nighthawk hunters trespassing there would have likely left or skipped the trash . So, in my opinion if you're not finding any trash, there might not have been much there to begin with

Hi mate. The area was a gold lead and according to the local historian a very active and rich one. It was ploughed flat in the early 1900s.
What happened here was up until 11 yrs ago there was no sewerage. At the time it was sold a large pipe to service several streets was put in across this paddock area. As people obviously heard what was going on, a rich lead that had been ploughed flat was ripped up in they came.
A pipe weeks earlier layed a number of nuggets were found up to 5 ounces about 1/2 a kilometre away from here. I knew about that one back then but not about this one here.
The majority would have been here for the gold. Some would have used non disc pulse, yeah they have limited disc but are unreliable and most here know that and never use it. Id then imagine them at night going at it and its easier to pocket the lot in a find bag, get as many targets as possible and sort them later. Iv done that in the past, not moonlighting I hate that just an area with lots of targets, when there was lots of tiny bits but also lots of small scrap. If you sorted each target, no disc, youd be there forever. My misses would come with me and id put the reduced dirt in a bucket. That way youd get 10 times 20 times more targets. Id just pan it out at home later. Guys do that here with gold in junk areas, also there is a habit of very many to dig up most targets as gold can in nugget form show up all over the place on id numbers. Often a nugget with ironstone shows up way down the scale and some will even fully discriminate out. I met a guy who showed me a 40 ounce bit on the day he found it. He was using a PI and after digging in hard ground thought "ill see if its junk" it fully discriminated out. He walked away, was finding nothing so about an hour before leaving thought "ah ill see what it is anyway" The detector discriminated out a 40 ounce nugget. So you can see why, the night crews especially, bag the lot detecting as many signals as they can and check them later. Others here have the habit of taking every target they detect.
Take old Inglewood town site central Vic. I went there yrs ago and it was target city, coins, old costume jewelry, junk, bullets the lot. I went there just a month or so ago and you can walk around for several minutes now until you get a signal if your lucky. One now would think there had not been much there, but it was alive back then.
I will discriminate with a vlf, but only in dead quiet nuetral ground like pipeclay but will check all numbers from 2 upwards. Hot ground forget it. Throws it all out.
Cheers 👍

 

[Digger RJ]

An old protractor. 10 acres and iv gone this way, that way and its been scun by illegal hunters.
Our backyard that once had an old gold lead run through it.
The old guy who lives over the road told me that when this place got sold it was vacant for several months, roughly 11 yrs ago. He said as soon as the previous owners moved out people were there nearly every day, sometimes on moonlit nights too. The new owners had not given permission to anyone and never new what was going on as nobody knew who to contact. Old guy said it went on for nearly 2 months. Its the most signal scarce place like this iv detected. I was really expecting to find some good finds. Alas, not to be.
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Nice!!! Congrats!!!