The Burden of load caused many Miners to disguard many items 1857

[tinpan]

Hi all Sunday morning , got up at 4.30 am to go for a nice drive .The site i choose was the old Melbourne road. Section that are were left. Often only used by local farmers.Between 1851 till the rail was built in 1863 this road was a freeway for miners and traders. the first road was little more than a dirt track threw the heavy wooded area. Only wide enough for wagons and drews. Most miners didn,t have horses and pushed hand carts over a 100 miles on foot in poor conditions. The title of this tread was taken from the writings of a 16 boy on his way to the gold feilds.Yep can,t google this sort of research.Where the range meets the hill country the sea level climbs about 1000 feet and quite steep.merely looking for camps along the road side. Lots of lead and glass but few coins and other relics. After about 4 hours finally got a huge hit. A discarded token Tea merchant Hank & Comp 1857 and a .3 gram of gold. After 2 1/2 years of using a GPX 4500 i can tell gold signal at best 65% of the time. As you seen even in a good location gold is not always easy to find.

Digging the softer ground near wheat feilds is a lot easier that the direct gold bearing ground. No don,t even think about the wheat feild. Australian farm feilds only have junk and are not worth the effort. blind hunt doesn,t work. Only direct location and research finds where the people once were.


tinpan

 

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[Ifoundit69]

Awesome finds I would be back hitting that place hard with finds like that !

 

[Desertvet]

 

[gold nuggets]

Nice recovery Tinpan....congrats to ya on the Lil' picker and
the 1857 token. Hope you can find more keepers on the next
drive. Well done........ Gold Nuggets

 

[Snake Eyes]

Outstanding....... I'd hit that place Hard!

HH!

 

[HISPAN]

nice coin and Gold

 

[ossi]

Nugget wonder we do not unfortunately. Congratulations beautiful. Ossi

 

[TheRockDoc]

Wow, nice finds man, and nice job researching and finding that place. So are you saying that someone basically mined/found that gold elsewhere and then lost it on accident where you found it? Sounds like wayyyy to much work in the first place (the ones who were doing it 100's of years ago) but then to end up dropping it on the 100 mile walk home... wow that must have been depressing. Those folks help give some perspective on what tough work and hard times really are/were..

Congrats.

Chris.

 

[nsdq]

nice recovery,,,, not discarded just left foryou to find good luck and hh

 

[Lanny in AB]

Gold nugget and coins? Sweet!!

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Smoogle]

Tinpan, I've been lurking your posts for ages ... love your research and finds ...

 

[mickk]

Yes its a sad fact that there is nothing in farmers fields here. No effective european civilisation til 1800s = nada. How I wish Australia was like England with 10,000 years of finds under every sod it seems. You can go bush and all you will find in 1000 square miles is a bit of old wire. If you knew what you were doing you would find a bit of old wire and a few nice meteorites and rocks. Like Tinny says, you gotta do your research here to find anything.

I know an old town swallowed up long ago by desert sands, if you enclosed a few acres with a coffer dam and sucked all the sand out, you would have 20 stone buildings not seen since the 1850s as if they were left yesterday but it will never happen.

 

[tinpan]

Yes its a sad fact that there is nothing in farmers fields here. No effective european civilisation til 1800s = nada. How I wish Australia was like England with 10,000 years of finds under every sod it seems. You can go bush and all you will find in 1000 square miles is a bit of old wire. If you knew what you were doing you would find a bit of old wire and a few nice meteorites and rocks. Like Tinny says, you gotta do your research here to find anything.

I know an old town swallowed up long ago by desert sands, if you enclosed a few acres with a coffer dam and sucked all the sand out, you would have 20 stone buildings not seen since the 1850s as if they were left yesterday but it will never happen.

That be Eucla ?

tinpan

 

[mickk]

Yes its a sad fact that there is nothing in farmers fields here. No effective european civilisation til 1800s = nada. How I wish Australia was like England with 10,000 years of finds under every sod it seems. You can go bush and all you will find in 1000 square miles is a bit of old wire. If you knew what you were doing you would find a bit of old wire and a few nice meteorites and rocks. Like Tinny says, you gotta do your research here to find anything.

I know an old town swallowed up long ago by desert sands, if you enclosed a few acres with a coffer dam and sucked all the sand out, you would have 20 stone buildings not seen since the 1850s as if they were left yesterday but it will never happen.

That be Eucla ?

tinpan

Keep laughing, Im talking Inland Telegraph...........ish cobber, have another think! youre way too south and in the wrong state!

When I win tatts, and buy the grouse 6 wheel long range, we will go there!

 

[tinpan]

Yes its a sad fact that there is nothing in farmers fields here. No effective european civilisation til 1800s = nada. How I wish Australia was like England with 10,000 years of finds under every sod it seems. You can go bush and all you will find in 1000 square miles is a bit of old wire. If you knew what you were doing you would find a bit of old wire and a few nice meteorites and rocks. Like Tinny says, you gotta do your research here to find anything.

I know an old town swallowed up long ago by desert sands, if you enclosed a few acres with a coffer dam and sucked all the sand out, you would have 20 stone buildings not seen since the 1850s as if they were left yesterday but it will never happen.

That be Eucla ?

tinpan

Keep laughing, Im talking Inland Telegraph...........ish cobber, have another think! youre way too south and in the wrong state!

When I win tatts, and buy the grouse 6 wheel long range, we will go there!

Just a quick thought that why i laughed. Sure buddie i will be in and while we are at it lets fill up the back with half ton of gemstones , gold, minerals. Thats quite possible in your country.

tinpan