Gold Detecting

[clair.de.lune]

Have you ever hired a gold detector? How did you go?

I would like to find one bit of gold, just one to keep so I can say I found some.

We only hired a gold detector once years ago anyway and found nothing

[purple.cow]

moorna you have just given me a great idea! On the ancestry thread I've told how I've found the property where my 2nd great grandparents lived, well we are going there today but on google maps it appears to be one big farm now. I wonder if the farm owners would let me go over it with a metal detector one day?

Land owners will often allow you to do a bit of treasure troving but sometimes they'll want you to declare what you find to them so they can get the pick of anything worth having, so just make sure you have one collection pouch for yourself, and another one for the divvy up 😉

[punch*drunk]

Found my dads maps of Maryborough and Talbot today, thought he might have marked on them where he found gold, but no such luck.

[clair.de.lune]

lol have just come from the Talbot famers market, had a great time!!

[debra9275]

Found my dads maps of Maryborough and Talbot today, thought he might have marked on them where he found gold, but no such luck..

Punchy, if you find one with lots of X's marked on it, please come back & let us know

[clair.de.lune]

:^O

[debra9275]

Oh well, it's worth a try Clair lol

[purple.cow]

Punchy, if you find one with lots of X's marked on it, please come back & let us know

Better still, give me the exact GPS loctions so I can do you the favour of going to check them out for you and tell you that I never found a single thing ;-):^O:^O

[debra9275]

Lol moorna

[clair.de.lune]

 We found an old tin with a key in it once, buried under the floor of an old house we had, never did find the treasure though

A friend on fb has just bought a house, they are renovating and she found a handwritten letter from 1938 and a 1948 invitation to a concert at the local church.

They were behind the kitchen chimney 

[debra9275]

Wow, I love finding any history like that Clair. our oldest house was built in 1862 on a hill in Lancefield where aborigines used to make axe heads out of some special rock. I never found any, but my neighbors did. We moved from there years ago