"Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintines powder battery and home 1870 ]

[tinpan]

"Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

hi all, Worked long hours this week and had lots of rain.Finally got out to a site which had been demo-ed lately.The site is located between a once black-powder battery and the family home of the Valintines. These people made the power for the deep gold mines at the bottom of the hill.This where Garden Gully Quartz Gold reef starts.Lots of trash but did well along a retainer wall, made of hand-made red bricks.

Found a 1906 medal for shooting, 1890 farthing {eng} Club token 5/ and a once sliver plated ring.

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[CarolinaDigs]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

great finds !!

 

[tinpan]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

pics of site

 

[Yarrum]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Great finds Tinpan. The noose is odd Loooove that shooting medal, she's a beauty. Are you having trouble with a lot of metal rubbish? That site looks like a detecting nightmare
Good luck out there mate.

Y

 

[Leon]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Nice finds tinpan, WTG!!!
Just wondering why you called that a shooting medal? Looks like an old church token to me, or am I looking at the wrong pic?
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Nice finds TP, congrats! HH, Mike

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Tin,

neat post. Nice finds. Location looks very
interesting.

Thanks for posting.

PS,
who or what is chewing on the edges of your
photos?

have a good un.............
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Nana40]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

@ Sherm!

Send some of that excess rain to Bama, TP! :P Those are some terrific finds and great research on the place!

Congrats! Nana

 

[tinpan]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Nice finds tinpan, WTG!!!
Just wondering why you called that a shooting medal? Looks like an old church token to me, or am I looking at the wrong pic?
Continued Good luck, & Happy hunting~

Shooting token one side is engraved Christchurch New zealand and date the second site is the name of the shooting event held in Ballarat Australia.The winner of this event was a Kiwi or New zealander.Hope that helps explain and thanks for the reply.

tinpan

 

[tinpan]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Tin,

neat post. Nice finds. Location looks very
interesting.

Thanks for posting.

PS,
who or what is chewing on the edges of your
photos?











have a good un.............
SHERMANVILLE

Photo's taste better than fingernails HH tinpan

 

[LuisTH]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Nice finds. Good job.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Re: "Garden Gully Part 1" [ Valintine's powder battery and home 1870 ]

Looks like a hard site to detect with all that trash, but you always seem to pull the good stuff out. I am home from my 'walk about "now so hope to see more of your finds. Is that a little pot with a hole in it?