Ken Parker's 'Four Swing' Park

Nellie very enthusiastic after an exciting hunt.

A quick afternoon detect while getting some milk and walking Nellie. I spotted another park unknown to me on the way to the shops. It could just be seen from the road.  The Ken Parker park is accessible only by a couple of walkways. It consisted of only four swings and that was it. I'm sure Ken deserved better facilities at his park.

In about 15 minutes I managed to release a few items from the bark, nothing startling, but I thought I would blog it anyway. The weed mat was again a problem but I was not digging just scraping away the bark with my shoe. Any signal that was below the bark was left to excite others.

So the finds were as follows. A welding rod, a small piece of brass piping, a Bic lighter, two washers, a key that opens cans of corn beef which always snap for me, but not this user it seems and 30 cents cash.

Small takings from a small park.

See you out there.

Beach Life

Bit of beach what I did  (park in far distance)

Sunday morning, left home at 7.00 am to enjoy some MD use on my last full day here. I headed to the beach at Maraetai once again. "I pulled $1.10 out of the two parks there before hitting the north side of the wharf, the less popular side for bathing, but not totally ignored by the beach goers. I wandered the 150 yards down to the wharf sticking to the dry sand collecting another ten cent and two twenty cents in my travels. So after an hour and a half my finds included spending adding up to a $1.60, half a shackle, a wee button and an old style wooden peg like Mum used to use.

What I found where I did

I was getting a little hungry and intended to head home but something made me go and have a quick look on the south side of the wharf. I've gone over this part of the beach many times and rarely have I come away empty handed. But I suppose I was hoping for too much after combing the area on Friday but on I went. I'm glad I did. in just under another hour I had secured a small piece of jewelry which I suspect had broken off of an brooch, a key, a fish hook, and another $5.40 in spending.
The best find was a very small coin very encrusted and in poor condition. It was about 6 inches down.

New Zealand 3d coin (uncirculated)

 At first inspection I thought it was an old one cent coin but it did seem too small to be that. After getting home I ran the coin under cold water and some of the gunk fell away revealing a 1946 (I'm pretty positive on the date) threepenny piece. A very cool find which must have been sitting there for many a year. Who knows how many detectors have gone over the top of it without reading it or bothering to dig. It was hard to spot even down to the last grains of sand in my basket.

The key looks like it was freshly dropped and who knows what inconvenience the loss has caused.
The small round piece of jewelry has a solid white stone like setting which looks powdery but doesn't powder. A marble sort of substance.

If it was John Key I would have left him buried.

So home to a late breakfast just as a small but blustery squall swept over the area. My timing was good.
A few nice things plus $7 spending and it's only eleven in the morning.

See you out there.