tinpan
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With whale stocks in North Hemisphere being hunted out, many different countries whale ships followed the wales to southern waters.As many as 6 different countries had large whale ship fleets working off the southern coast of the Australia.Hundreds of camps can be found along the coast line for 3000 miles.The whalers often used islands and high cliffs as spotter stations .There was generally safe ancorage for ships not to far away.The great southern ocean could turn nasty rather quickly and there was just as many ship wrecks along the coast as camps.Not allow to take relics from wrecks in Australian waters and the water is mostly to deep for divers.
On the long week end we had a few weeks ago i went to stay with my brother and he lives about 5 miles from the coast and a work mate his who's family had lived in the area for about 120 years gave me a couple of sites to try out.Spent 2 days trying out a couple of spotters camps and came up with just a few relics and 2 silver coins .Found these
silver 1815 shilling (uk)
silver florin early victoria not readable date
pistol hammer and bit of
silver spoon twisted
big loop key
copper bigger than a UK penny
??
Shards of black bottles and few real thick pottery shards
thanks for looking tinpan
On the long week end we had a few weeks ago i went to stay with my brother and he lives about 5 miles from the coast and a work mate his who's family had lived in the area for about 120 years gave me a couple of sites to try out.Spent 2 days trying out a couple of spotters camps and came up with just a few relics and 2 silver coins .Found these
silver 1815 shilling (uk)
silver florin early victoria not readable date
pistol hammer and bit of
silver spoon twisted
big loop key
copper bigger than a UK penny
??Shards of black bottles and few real thick pottery shards
thanks for looking tinpan
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