Metal Detecting discussions and finds

I wouldn't be able to tell you. But if you are curious, post it up on TreasureNet. There are some very knowledgeable folks over there.

 

Most...lol

 

Right! A few of them make ya' scratch your head...

 

I would assume they smoked it, I have just spent alot of time around these sites with alot of opium usage an never found pieces of something that looked like a pipe. Or maybe I have and just didn't realize it. Like I said need to do more research about it. It is another fascinating aspect of life back then. I would assume there was a prevalent chinese population down by you as well.

 

I did. They said it was a 3-Ring Miniball from the CW. I'm stoked!

 

Might have a mouth piece there

 

There were Chinese in this area in a broad sense. They worked the railroads and there are plenty of those here in eastern CA/western NV. I have had friends tell me that they have found bunches of Chinese tokens along the railroads.

 

Very cool! Nice find!

 

Nice! Go back and look for more

 

So what was it?

 

I think it was one of these:

 

Hit that with a 10# sledge to see if it is "empty"?

How I check rounds to see if the primers are still good?

 

You wouldn't feel a thing!

 

Seems like a good place to leave these.

 

of course i cant find it now , but the longer version shows the explosion

 

Well I DID find an opium pipe. I found these two brass pieces a few feet apart at first didn't realize they went together as I thought the one part was a barrel tap. Turns out it's an opium pipe that had broken at the base of the bowl. Looking to have it soldered back together and going to find a piece of bamboo that will work with it, hopefully there is a mouthpiece somewhere around there to be found!

 

Very cool! You're putting together a nice collection of Chinese paraphernalia!
Opium pipe: one more thing I have to zero in on...

 

Told ya...lol awesome find!

 

I've done tortoise work in the past. You a biologist I presume?

 

Used to be - teacher now. My specialty was desert mammal species mostly, bats and krats, but I also did a lot of tortoise. Still like getting out there now for fun, and I always loved the geology and minerals out there- thats why I finally got a good detector. What type of work were you doing?