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Shanes Page 4 - A slight overview
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Posted : Thursday, 23 October 2014 6:50:59 PM(UTC)
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October 2014

Back with a new thread of my own. Please check out my earlier threads:
The Howard Area, Shanes Page, Shanes Page 2, The Far Side (view at your own risk), GOLD Unplugged (enter also at your own risk), Treasure Hunter, NZ Fossickers and Collectors magazine, Foss Mag 2, The Creamer Bros.

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Posted : Thursday, 23 October 2014 6:52:38 PM(UTC)
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Trip # 171
End of the road
No coins, 3 sinkers and an old brass name plate says: H.WILLETTS BUILDER DEVONPORT

Trip # 172
End of the road for a walk with my better half and Ace..
1 coin all up
NZ 2 cent piece

Trip # 173
To the other side of the Bay for a weekend on the home brew with me mate. First buzz was a night mission followed by another the next day. Results are as follows.
1 goldie, 10 coins all up
1921 Uk Penny
1971 NZ 1 cent piece
1974 NZ 2 cent piece
1999 Aussie 2 dollar coin (only coin i found stumbling round in the dark)
2005 10 cent foreign thing (not sure what yet)


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Not sure where and when i found this one but i did
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Posted : Thursday, 23 October 2014 9:41:02 PM(UTC)
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The Willetts were reknowned boatbuilders in Devonport years ago...Might be worth following up.
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Posted : Friday, 24 October 2014 8:03:33 AM(UTC)
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Yes i gave it a good ol google search but found very little info. Somewhere around the turn of the century 1900.

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Posted : Friday, 24 October 2014 2:40:51 PM(UTC)
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How ya spozed to dig the sov's with ya hands full haha! Wino!
There's another to find and I'm gunna find it!
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Posted : Sunday, 26 October 2014 6:29:30 PM(UTC)
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I'm very good at molty tasking.. Should have seen me on my night hunt.

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Posted : Saturday, 22 November 2014 8:18:46 PM(UTC)
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A few notes i've been storing for this post

* The Shads man, The Shads.
* White Faced Crane. The Blue Heron flies above as observed last time this year.
* Yellow hammerheads.
*Tui no longer in the Flame Trees next door as the nahbor cut them down.
*Like i give a freak (don't know where that came from).
*Thought i found GOLD this month but it was a 2009 25 Argentine goldie..
*GOLD is good.
*Play louder this month a the stars are aligned accordingly.

Trip # 174

Other side of the Bay.
1 goldie, 5 coins all up.
1970 USA 5 cent

Trip # 175
Middle of the other side of the Bay
1 goldie, a 2009 Argentine 25 Centavos

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..thought i found a GOLD one
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A nice place to be
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Posted : Saturday, 22 November 2014 9:20:41 PM(UTC)
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hi,with beaches like that around i definately would be thinking of a pulse machine methinks it would pay for its self in no time. good luck
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Posted : Sunday, 23 November 2014 11:35:48 AM(UTC)
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Hi there Roy. Yes the sand has been washed up high here at the moment leaving some of the low tide line a bit lower than normal. Can be a bit of a struggle for the 350 although it does work well in some of the trashy areas. A PI machine would help dramatically as i usually only hunt the beaches. Sure as i'd be pickin up a bit more GOLD at least.

Good luck over there i see you've been doing well.

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Posted : Monday, 1 December 2014 8:50:35 PM(UTC)
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Feel the love, feel the love.

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Posted : Tuesday, 9 December 2014 8:10:28 AM(UTC)
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Finally started to rain yesterday after a couple of months of dry weather. Very welcome as the grass has started to die off. A differant contrast as compared to a few months back when it was flooding.

A 70k round trip to the other side of the Bay. Hunted for a while and found nothing, was about to head home when i found a short coin line.

Trip # 176

7 coins all up, all decimals. 17 finds in all.
1982 NZ 50 cent
196- NZ 20 cent
1982 NZ 10 cent
1999 NZ 5 cent


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Posted : Tuesday, 9 December 2014 10:42:50 AM(UTC)
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nice one,top marks for perseverance the ones with the most of it usually find the most,good luck
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Posted : Wednesday, 10 December 2014 8:13:00 AM(UTC)
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Cheers Roy, i was hoping to find something after a long trip so the coins were a welcome relief.

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Posted : Saturday, 13 December 2014 5:45:28 PM(UTC)
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A nice assortment of finds there Shane but I can't help being a little surprised by the lack of old stuff coming out of your region.
I've never had the opportunity to metal detect in Northland but with the early settler history in your area, I would have expected to see a lot more silver and relics coming out of the ground than appears to happen.
There must be old domain's or long forgotten picnic spots in Northland that still remain untapped, just waiting for an enthusiastic hunter to research and dig.
I would have thought that particularly Russell would be a relic goldmine.
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Posted : Saturday, 13 December 2014 7:50:41 PM(UTC)
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A nice assortment of finds there Shane but I can't help being a little surprised by the lack of old stuff coming out of your region.
I've never had the opportunity to metal detect in Northland but with the early settler history in your area, I would have expected to see a lot more silver and relics coming out of the ground than appears to happen.
There must be old domain's or long forgotten picnic spots in Northland that still remain untapped, just waiting for an enthusiastic hunter to research and dig.
I would have thought that particularly Russell would be a relic goldmine.


Problem is that all the juicy hotspots up here are clamped under the Historic Places Act...That and the fact that even though it's the oldest European area, they were all poor buggers.

Although they reckon that at one stage there were 5 to 8,000 muskets in the area, I've found a couple of musket balls, so there is hope for a full Brown Bess yet!

(Census in 1886 gives population of Kerikeri at 86...)

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Posted : Monday, 15 December 2014 9:10:45 AM(UTC)
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Yes, quite limited as where one can hunt up here. It didnt take me long to figure out that the beaches are one place to go without being challenged. In saying that i do prefer digging in sand rather than the dirt, easier on the poor old knees atc.
About 3 years ago the sand conditions on the beaches was perfect. Nice and flat with coin lines where ever i went all up and down the coast here. I was pulling old time finds by the plenty and you can see them in my earlier threads. This last year or so the weather patterns have been differant leaving the beach sands high and heavy. Unless your on the low tide line this makes for difficult detecting. Its only when the storms hit that i can get into some detectable ground as they open the beaches up.
So the finds are there and i'll get them again.. hopefully.

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Posted : Wednesday, 31 December 2014 9:34:42 AM(UTC)
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2014

Last day of the year and a good time to post me last hunt of 2014. Battling with hip and leg injury the last couple of months has made hunting a little difficult but i still managed to get out when i can and enjoy the day. Hoping to get out to the main beach next week where the finds should be a bit more plentiful, in saying that the sands have been high of late there and some big wave action would be in order to open the beach up a little.
Have a safe new year everyone.

To the end of the road for a scrounge around the boat ramp. Wasn't coming home till i found roundness. And on the last swing up one came. Yah

Trip # 177

1 coin all up, a spoon, and a sinker.
198- NZ 50 cent


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Posted : Wednesday, 31 December 2014 7:55:31 PM(UTC)
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hi creamer, that beach looks very inviting somewhere out in that water will be rings for africa all you need is the machine and the will to go and get them.best of luck.
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Peace to all. I feel love.

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Over to the other side of the bay for the weekend

Trip # 178

5 goldies, 14 coins all up. Some unidentified finds
2 x NZ 1 cent
2 x NZ 2 cent
2001 NZ 5 cent
1978 NZ 20 cent
2 x 1990 NZ 1 dollar
2008 NZ 1 dollar
Space 1999 NZ 2 dollar
Singapore 1 dollar
1950 NZ 1 penny
1951 NZ 1 penny
1936 UK 1 penny
1921 Italy 10 c


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Hell hole of the pacific - Russell
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