Well been pretty quiet of late ~ but last week deviated from usual scenes and ventured into new territory ~
This included some areas which I reckon would be some of the most heavily fossicked areas in Queensland if not Australia !!
These included;
Range View- a WWII training area near Tolga which was a huge encampment and training area ~
The Rocky Creek Hospital site
Long lands Jungle training camp
Irvine-bank
Wongabel
We visited these areas purely as a change of pace or when showing visitors around the area.
Finds varied quite a lot being from scant to impressive
On this position I retrieved a swag of 303 Bren gun expended shells ~
The Rocky Creek Hospital site
ROCKY CREEK, QLD. 1943-08-09-10. GENERAL VIEW OF 2/2ND AUSTRALIAN GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Some of the finds ~
A AMF stock water bottle
Appreciate thoughts on the Webbing buckle top right ~ rectangular with long buckle pin ( ???)
The stone ~ top left ~ is in fact a hand
seed grinding stone ~ it stuck out like Dog's ball on the site as the only rocks on the area were white quartz~ it was either bought there by a WWII digger from perhaps north Africa or is a indigenous discarded tool ~ A very unusual find `
First thought I had found Italian rounds but research has all but confirmed they are the Japanese rounds
Also another team member found what we believe are Stripper clips from a Boys Anti-tank rifle !
I thought perhaps the .50 cal round next the Japanese rounds may have been a .55 Boys but it measured as a .50
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