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Wednesday, out to Balfour on the 8:45 bus to wrap up the season's quest for arrowheads.
I didn't check the return schedule and was committed until the 1:00 PM return bus; 3 1/2 hours in the cold rain. My coffee lasts only a few sips before it's cold, and I'm cold and wet pretty quick as well. Fortunately once I focus I'm on a mission and find my Zen...
All that rain, surely there must be SOMETHING!
Overall, no there wasn't. A few of the days finds:
Highlighted - in the top row - black looks like spearpoint (but - could just be a rock. Basalt doesn't give the same percussion marks as the argillite and so it's tough to be sure. Next a white quartzite point - right shape, but again, no obvious signs of workmanship. Next to that a scraper or blade. 2nd row - far left - looks like a point but it isn't. Right to the orange jasper point with the divots from pressure flaking - a point, to the right - might be a point.
Bottom - third in, a broken point (tip gone) - and far right what looks to be a broken tipped bird point.
So - all in all, 3 1/2 hours stooped double examining rocks and maybe 3 points and a bunch of debitage.
Not the season finale I was hoping for but - not entirely fruitless. No showstoppers, just the mundane practical tools.
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One lucky Aussie finds a one kilo gold nugget near Broken Hill, Australia, valued at $150, 000.
Which would solve some (not all) of my financial problems. Now there has to be that around here...but where?
Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-26/gold-nugget-discovered-in-outback/107306976
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The title says it all. Now were I finding these things pulling up Tent Pegs I'd be back with a metal detector and shovel within hours - this is a stroke of good fortune that I'd need to be out and about a great deal more than I've been. Anyways the fact that he didn't give a more precise area suggests he might be off doing that very thing...
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Some construction worker just had the best day of his life:
There have been an insane number of "treasures" found as of late, primarily encouraged by the plethora of treasure hunting videos. But that's a pretty insane one...
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A thirteenth century hoard of Glass Bracelets found near Volodymyr, Ukraine. While treasures are abundant this was not found with a metal detector (those are found daily, world wide) - and the fragile nature of them, make this treasure rather unique.