Interesting find with the Terra

Chilli

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Feb 10, 2022
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Hi all. Beautiful day here today in Victoria, 20c, sunny, light breeze so took the XTerra 705 out for a hunt.
Was on the edge of an old gold lead where a home had once been in the late 1880 to early 1900s. Nothing left but some bricks here n there and lots of iron and junk. Detector in all metal sounded like a machine gun at times. Got some old stuff, old wooden handle pocket knife that has seen better days. Thought I had a coin but turned out to be a button face/top. Some other odd thing and shotty end.


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Then a great solid mid range signal that stood right out amongst the rubbish.
Loved it when I saw the coloured glass. Not sure what it was. Top of a decanter type thing, no idea really but looked good.
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So im checking it out, getting the dirt out of the neck and when I shook it I heard a rattle. Couldn't make it out so tried to clean it more back at the car then curiosity got the better of me and I got out a wire metal cutter and opened it up. The rattle was a seperate bit of rough broken glass that was once mirrored, that sat under the crimson coloured shaped bit on top.
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Put together and cleaned in the sun this was the result. I guess once, when whatever it was, when whole, it probably looked spectacular in the light.
 

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I'm pretty sure it's either an old bike or car reflector.
Yeah, I found out that is right. An old vintage car reflector. Both you and @releventchair picked that out. 👍
And me I destroyed it 😆
It amused me though for several minutes seeing it shine so there's kind of a win in that. 😁
 

Some very interesting finds :)
 

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