pulling finds from the squishy mud of Milk Maid Gully gold camp

[tinpan]

Hi all, been raining mostly over the past 2 weeks and the ground is just a clay mushy bog. Finally sunday a dry day, so after lunch i headed out to a new site in the state forrest. called Milk Maid Gully gold was mined here from 1852 till the great depression About 600 families lived in this part of the gully , scattered in small camps and towns. They even had a post office and daly bread delivery from the large town about 5 miles back down the hill. Most of the road in are clay and are washed way, so on foot i went. walked about a mile before i spotted a larged area covered in mine holes and diggings.there one large hard rock mine with huge pieces of quart lying around it. here i pick up my only piece of gold for the day. But did quite well on the relics .Quite muddy but always ready to have a go. Gor a nice pic of the gold sitting in the ground, hardly monster nugget but all adds up. this piece about .48 of a gram.

The relics recovered

1 half penny 1892
1 silver sixpence 1848
1 1818 farthing KG#3
1 2 piece 1860's VR button
1 army dogtag [aust] 1924
1 speck of gold .48 of a gram

few miners pressed junk and heaps of rubbish .Theres quite few feild and find pics

tinpan

 

[tinpan]

pics

 

[Mr Tuff]

nice score on some silver n gold tin pan MR TUFF

 

[tuatara]

That's quite a decent haul of relics, TP
The dog tag is in a very neat shape for ol' Vic. I've never managed to find one with Australian coat-of-arms. Here they put a swan instead of roo-n-emu on everything ... dog tags, medals etc.
Now I know why they call Vic a 'Garden State' ... because it's Gre-e-e-n. Honestly, I was quite shocked with the results. They will close down every detecting place for you.

 

[Des from down under]

GREAT STUFF TINPAN..NEAT FINDS FOR SURE .THAT TUNIC BUTTON..TELL ME MORE IS THAT THE SAME AS THE A/C WORE HERE IN THE 1800

 

[CRUSADER]

Not sure what you think of it, but the dog tag looks like the find of the hunt - cool looking piece of history, traceable I guess?

 

[bootybay]

Your Posts are always so interesting, including lots of photos of the areas, I just enjoy reading your adventures... love the dog tag and all the other goodies.. keep on digging and keep on taking such great photos too.

 

[pepperj]

The dog tag for sure is the coolest find. Nice shape it's in, and always a neat find.
Here's one of my favorite tags.

 

[Wldbil]

Great finds and I agree with everyone that dog tag is really cool and in great shape. Congrats

 

[m bryan]

Like the pics.........cool finds!

 

[Tennessee Treasure Hunter]

Awesome finds Congratulations
The dog tag
TTH

 

[Skelly607]

Nice pics,,,,,,kewl finds!