Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a metal detecting enthusiast from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. This website is a combination of my interests from metal detecting, to shotshell collecting, to writing the histories of various things. The website contains a shotshell headstamp database, various blogs on metal detecting finds and other …
Below are links to forums about gold and treasure metal detecting and relic hunting. Australian Sites Australian Metal Detecting and Relic Hunting (AMDRH) Prospecting Australia Overseas Sites Friendly Metal Detecting Treasurenet Detector Prospector Paydirt Community (NZ)
Links to metal detecting forums Metal detector manuals, software and how-to guides
I recently decided to check out a section of the old railway in my neck of the woods and see if I could find the old stations. One in particular yielded up some nice finds although I could find little information on the siding. Reading through the old papers I …
If you’ve been to Tocumwal then you have probably heard of the large Airbase that was there during WW II until the 1960’s. We managed to find some crown land that sits on an old piece of the airbase and took the X-Terras over it for the day. We got …
I’m currently traveling around the country and am always on the lookout for likely metal detecting sites. I found an old railway station in Victoria which is no longer active, the station itself is gone and the railway is now a walking/riding path. Looking at old photos of the station …
While traveling through country Victoria recently, I camped at a hotel in Gippsland which offered sites to passing travelers. The hotel had not been there long just 30 years or so, still, I was hoping I might find a few coins around it. Luckily there was no grass to speak …
We headed back out to the old farmhouse with the X-Terra’s for another day’s detecting to see what else had been missed. There were 2 old dumping spots near the ruins which we went over and in between the junk managed to extract some nice coins and old curios. Someone …
We headed out to an old campsite today with the X-Terra 705’s. The area was used for school camps as far as I’m aware and was still in use until about 15 years ago. Today all the buildings have been removed and there is a lot of trash left lying …
