Spent a day at Hamilton on the banks of the Waikato,in the most unlikely spot I suspect there must have been an old shop or similiar on this spot.Found altogether $23 in goldies along with the deeper pennies and the nice old silver coins,shame about the silver heart I found the two halves about 3 metres apart it has been hit by a mower at some stage.I cleaned the silver coins up but will leave the rest for a rainy day (to busy detecting),also found an old fob watch very rusty though and forgot to take a pic.Can anyone throw some light on the old bullet it is the 3rd one I have found now....HH jim
The old bullet is most likely a 58 calibre from the time of the Maori wars in the 1860s,I have quite a few similar bullets. There were lots of battles between the British and Maori, both in Waikato and Taranaki as well as up north.
ReplyDeleteWell done on the silver, any chance of a close up of the non Kiwi coins?
Does the bullet have a hollow base? If so then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet (look down at the minnie ball pic).
ReplyDeleteHave always figured the lake in Hamilton would be well worth running a detector around - lots of junk but high potenital.
You are getting rewarded for your travels Jim.
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