Australian WWII - Far North Queensland Metal detecting and recovery
Article about: Hi Blokes ~ I am posting this as an going blog for interested parties that have been following my fossicking of (extensive) WWII ~ Far North Qld Australia . This area has been described in r
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12-07-2013, 01:44 PM
#181
Another up-date
your mystery round is a .303 , what they call a stove pipe , which means the round has slammed into another in the breach , might have been from a Bren gun or .303 browning machine gun , usually a automatic loading error , sometimes it happens with a bolt action rifle , if its rapid fire and loaded when the previous round has stuck in the chamber .
Woww!! Thanks
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12-11-2013, 11:50 AM
#182
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12-17-2013, 01:01 AM
#183
As a post comment... the original reason I have swept this area repeatedly is that the area in the distance and on the foreshore ~ is a registered camp site of yet another Australian WWII campsite ~
I have found almost nothing on the shore line even on this outing but a .45 calibre bullet head. !
But on the immediate hill top I found large numbers of expended 303 blank shells. This of course tells me that at very least the hill was used at least once in a training exercise ~
But the far shore line , stil under water is a very flat area ~ shallow which appears ideal for a camp site. But of course after some 70m years ~ and a number of periods of the dam levels dropping to as low as 24% ( currently 62%) either the site has been searched previously or the full site is simply not yet exposed ~
And unfortunately as the annual Wet tropics season cuts in the odds of the water dropping even further diminish ~ although having said that the rain fall to date is well short of a normal year ~ So who really knows whether it will be a 'Bonanza year' for the amateur archaeologist !??
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12-17-2013, 08:32 AM
#184
Great thread
Maybe a photo of all your finds in one shot?
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12-17-2013, 09:04 AM
#185
LOL
Michael ~ Mate ~ thats a BIG ask !! I will do a compilation of snaps ` Hows that ~
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12-17-2013, 09:21 AM
#186
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12-17-2013, 10:36 AM
#187
That silver thing you called a "silver necklace pendent" is a clasp to suit a pandora ladies bracelet
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12-17-2013, 12:05 PM
#188
Aust
Cheers mate ~ actually the 'Office lady ' at Work told me the same thing.. it is tiny but very cool !
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12-17-2013, 12:29 PM
#189
A sampler ( michael) ~
I was given a small contribution to my collection today ~ a Bandolier plus 50 303 ball with stripper clips dated 1959.
But the nice surprise was a 20 mm shell still intact but disarmed ~that is contents removed ~ so played around with range of 'smaller' bores ~ 8 mm to 40 mm ~
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12-17-2013, 04:29 PM
#190
Are you referring to the shiney brass cartridge in the last couple of photos as a 20mm? If you are, it isn't, it's a 50cal, but apologies if you weren't as I can see a 20 in your other picture
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