It seems sunset is also a good time for "Dirt Fishing"

The Blue Field is the name we have given the field where I found the button and Martini-Henry bullets. We call it that because it has a piece of angle iron that has been painted blue and placed in a very central and noticeable position. I suspect this serves as some sort of marker. There was not too much to report from this short sunset session. No mysterious military items or seemingly out of place artifacts but one of the things I enjoy most about metal detecting is getting out of the house into nature.

The Blue Field from a detectorists point of view.

Now this is not the easiest place but to swing a metal detector and I was focused on my footing while periodically looking at the detectors screen to ensure I hadn't missed anything. I noticed the light starting to fade as it does relatively early these days and something told me to look up.

I took a few minutes to appreciate this quickly fading spectacular before continuing with the task at hand. Life Lesson: There is always time to stop and appreciate the beauty and wonder there is to behold in nature.  

The hunt was not altogether wasted as I did find one of the coins on my bucket list. A 1963 larger format 1/2 cent. This is now in the same series as my 1 cent I found a few weeks ago. I learnt something interesting when I started looking these coins up, the side with the head on it is the "Obverse" or front of the coin, the side with the nice design and the date is the "Reverse"

1963 South African 1/2 Cent

1963 1/2 cent.Still needs a little cleaning but I've also learnt not to clean them too much or you lose the patina, the green layer that copper/brass coins get with age.

1962 South African 1 Cent

And while we are on the topic of coins, these are my Pennies.

1952 South African George 6th 1 Penny

1956 South African Queen Elizabeth the 2nd 1 Penny

The above Queen Elizabeth coin that taught me the lesson that too much cleaning is a bad thing.It's brown and ugly now. We live and learn and I still have a long way to go but if I pay attention there are new lessons to be learnt everyday.