Hidden Treasures Under a House

Under House Metal Detecting Finds

Well not exactly hidden treasure, but I found some nice stuff yesterday at an old house which has no floorboards (eaten away by termites)

I spent around 6 hours detecting yesterday, I went for a long drive as I usually do and love to do, looking for places to go metal detecting and I went to a few old homesteads around the district.

The first one I went to was just basically a very old iron shack, I had no luck there, and did not hang around for long, because the ground was like concrete and impossible to get the shovel in, usually I carry a geologist pick ax, but I keep on forgetting to take with me, as I do with my metal detecting pouch, so at the end of the day my pockets are full of sand.

The Australian Iron Shack

After leaving the old iron shack, I headed East of town to a place where I have been previously hunting for old Australian bottles, feeling alot more confident and excited.

This old place had two old abandoned houses, the first place was very old for Australian standards, probably late 19th Century, it is a mud brick home, very weathered and very damaged by termites and the elements of weather.

The Australian Mud Brick House

Once again that old place had ground like concrete, so I did not really try much detecting, but around 200 metres away was the next old house…. this is the house which gave up some of its hidden treasures.

The house looked pretty good on the outside, but on the inside it was just ball walls, no floorboards due to termites, and as soon as I noticed it had no floorboards, thats when I started feeling a little excited, knowing that there was a good chance to find things that had either been buried under the floorboards, or to find things that may have fallen between the floorboards.

No Floorboards - Treasure Hunters Dream

Mystery Coin in the Sift

So I started detecting and it did not take long to get a strong signal, the soil was beautiful and soft so I had no trouble digging soil into my sift. What I found was a coin of some type which I had never found before, because it was bigger than all the previous Australian Pre-Decimal Coins I had found before, but there was no way I could identify it because it had a big shell of corrosion surrounding it.

I thought the coin would be well and truly damaged from the corrosion, that is only if it was a copper coin, but was it copper?

I leave that surprise to a post tomorrow, because I am still impatiently cleaning this unknown find… so please come back tomorrow and you’ll see my surprise find … (nothing special, but I have never seen one before)

The Mystery Coin Found Under Floorboards

The Mystery Coin above will be revealed on the site soon!

Anyhow, besides that item, this is what I found under the floorboards and around the house:

• 1912 Australian Half Penny
• 1922 Australian Half Penny
• 1925 Australian Half Penny
• 1939 Australian Six Pence
• 1942 Australian Three Pence

The Third House

I did find some other coins, six pence and three pence, but due to my carelessness, I had them in my top pocket and they must have fallen out when I was digging or bending over, but will find them on my return hopefully!

I found other stuff at the house as follows:

• Silver Tea Spoon
• 2 Silver Bangles / Bracelets
• Buttons
• Some Bottles and Jars
• Plenty of Junk!

Will be heading back to that place in the very near future!

Then finally on the way home, I past another old house, and thought, bugger it, I will test my luck there as well!

And I found some more coins.

• 1948 Australian Shilling
• 1950 Australian Shilling
• 1951 Australian Three Pence
• numerous 1 and 2 cent coins

The Last House for the Day!