Return trip to the new site.

[2ndoldman]

Return trip day 1
Micheal's lovely wife Alice was able to join the two on the first return trip to our secret spot.
It does entail a fair bit of driving through rough roads, muddy terrain, potholes and avoiding logging trucks.
We have been clambering through pricker bushes, hawthorn bushes, climbing up and down steep hills.
The scenery is as always spectacular though. W e came across a herd of around 30 elk.

Once we arrived at our secret location, we each staked out our chosen places to detect.
The absolute best part was having Alice with us.
This is the two of them detecting together.
She does enjoy detecting, but does not get out much.
I would like to say that she did very well and beat the pants off of us.
I really would like to say that. But alas, it is just not so.
She wound up with a lot of copper, brass and so did we.
Pennies were obviously a very well used currency back then.
Strangely they are all covered in green skuz at this location.
There was not a modern penny anywhere to be found, nor even a pulltab.
The heart shaped penny pendant was a surprise.

Buttons seemed to pop up everywhere. You name it, and they were unearthed.


The three of us enjoyed a bit of horsing around.
And what would an outing be if there was no entertainment.
All we needed was a juke box.

The 1914 30th anniversary watch fob for the trades and labour council held in St. John was a totally unexpected find.
In the middle of a bulldozed, blasted and burned out building is not the sort of location that one would expect to find this.
As always, the silver sucker managed to find some silver
I had removed the 17" coil and replaced it with the 5 X 10" so I could work among the nail beds.
The results speak for themselves.

[2ndoldman]

As for Micheal's finds; well best day ever would not be too far off in a description. .

Right after Micheal found a gold plated cufflink.
He headed off to show his wife and I came by and found another piece not 3' away from his find.
So we each have a piece of one cufflink.
Mine is on the right and Micheal's is on the left. is on the right.

Silver as usual.. This place has produced a disproportionately large number of silver for the size of area.
And for that we are all grateful.

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Micheal has a passion that borders on an obsession for finding militaria.
Micheal's military finds of the day started with a nice, albeit normal, shoulder flash.
He has several already but displays them all with pride. The second shoulder flash was far more spectacular.
It is one from the 225th Kootenay overseas battalion.. They were headquartered out of Fernie, B.C.
It is a wonderful go-with to his cap badge and sterling swagger stick top.

But the best find of the day was one that made him into a giddy school girl when he found it.
And the best thing was that his wife got to see the absolute joy/rapture when he found this sterling DLI pin.
He thought that DLI stood for 551 [Roman numerals}
Even though he knows that Canada only sent 260 battalions overseas in WW1.
It was only when he texted Ralph that he told me that it was a nice ‘Durham Light Infantry’.
The actual Durham Light Infantry did not show up well until it was cleaned. Roger might be able to help identify this pin.
To the best of our knowledge the Durham Light Infantry never had a pin that included the rifle.
So we are thinking that it might be a sweetheart pin.