Good news, Bad news......

Got permission to hunt 2 more closed schools, both dating back to the late 1800's and showing lots of promise. First one produced 11 coins of which 6 were pre decimals, all pennys and a couple of them early 1900's British. May be worth another look but the trash to coin ratio was huge. The second school produced 13 coins, 12 of them decimal....... supprisingly the 13th was a British 1916 shilling. I have a feeling this school may not quite be on its original site. So thats the bad news...........Good news is today we headed back to a park in a town nearby we hunted recently. Total haul 29 coins, including 8 toasted pennys, a 1/2 penny, $4.50 in spending and the usual old decimals. Nice to find an almost intact Fun Ho D8 bulldozer, a Fun Ho holden chassis and the little stg silver bracelet was a bonus. I think the round lead thing with 2 holes is an old hem weight?
 Pics below. HH

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Back into the "swing" of things!

It's been a while since I posted..........various reasons, the first being very busy at work and the second being that I live in a fairly small city, I seem to have removed every skerrik of metal from the ground for miles around! I have been out detecting over the last few months but nothing worthy to report, a few coins here and there, mainly old deimal, a few pennys and 1/2 pennys and thats about it.
Today we were forecast 30 deg, hot for the Naki and I decided come hell or high water we would find somewhere to hunt. We headed out to a town nearby that has been fruitfull before, a river runs through the main park and there is a swimming hole there that has been used for many years. We have hunted here before, liberating a couple of silver rings and a gold ring from the river bank by the swimming hole. I thought the council may have sprayed the vegitation and we would have a bit more area devoid of weeds to hunt. I was right they had, and "BINGO!" the first signal I got, a nice pull tabby 50ish turned up this  9ct signet ring.
Also picked up a couple of half pennys before moving to a grassed area where a school oval borders the park. More pennys and old decimal from here with a couple of silvers thrown in, along with the old toy gun. The most interesting find of the day was the token like thing. One side reads " round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows". The other side reads " Shune delux uniforms, Evansville Indiana" There is what appears to be a tiny hole right in the middle, so I guess at some time in its life it did spin around.......will research and follow up with more info if it comes to light.
Gotta say it is good to be back into the swing.....!
Pics to follow as soon as the website lets me upload.