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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07-27-2014, 01:56 AM
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07-30-2014, 12:36 PM
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08-05-2014, 06:41 PM
#333
Well Just received a complimentary kick in the teeth with my relics!
I have said it before but I have speculated that the only way I think I will ever find any WWII Axis forces relics from the European campaign would be through an Australian Digger who served in North Africa , or other related fronts, then procuring a relic, returning to Australia then losing or rejecting the item while on service in this area!
Well this week I posted the new video on my U-Tube account and I was approached via PM by "Robert" who it turns out is in Holland and has been an amateur archaeologist for some twenty years ~ Robert asked me to identify what he could not identify , that being the 303 ammo box T pin piece.
After some congenial exchanges he browsed my photo bucket files and came back to me to announce that I had unwittingly already found such an item ( in an Australian AIF camp) !
I had in fact dug up a German Army Aluminium personal canteen cup !!
It was pretty damaged and my MD mate suggested it was too small for an American issue and it was post WWII ~ There were no markings but the colour, a dark blue patchy paint struck me as more than a little unusual !
Then my partner was dismayed that I would even bring the thing home and it ended up in the recycling bin !!!
I broke my own rule ~ DO NOT DISCARD ANY ITEM UNTIL IT HAS BEEN POSITIVELY 100% identified ~
AND YES ~ I have given myself several upper cuts to the jaw!!
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08-05-2014, 08:31 PM
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We've all done it I'm sure, your not the first and you sure wont be the last to do so.
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08-06-2014, 06:19 AM
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Yes ~ well ~
Hoping to do a recce this Friday ~ If the rain racks off ~ see if we can find an Afrika Corp Bayonet and scabbard/ Frog eh ~ or helmet ~ that would be nice ~
Anything with a stamp or inscription noting WWII German forces perhaps ! LOL
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08-16-2014, 12:21 PM
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08-17-2014, 12:36 AM
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Hey mate,that item certainly does have a boys look to it,might be some form of trenchart or maybe someone made a stopgap spacer out of a casing...does it have a headstamp?
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08-17-2014, 02:40 AM
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Sean
It does have ahead stamp and I will do a update right now ~ ( I am not sure if Terry was yanking my chain or not as he was in a S/ stirring mood on Wednesday ~ LOL)
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08-17-2014, 03:25 AM
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Here it is . and I was right ~ a cut down Boys Ant-tank round ~ and Terry was trying to sell me the Sydney Harbour bridge too when he tried to tell me it was an engine component ~
Thanks Sean!
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08-17-2014, 08:37 AM
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Looks like a MK 2 armour piercing case. Incidentally the diagram you posted is of a rare chamber insert to fire .22 rimfire on gallery ranges etc. quite a rare item and one was found by the RRPG a few years back.
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