My Scotland Adventure: What did I find?

So - Scottish gold: First, let me say that the owners of the campsite where I stayed had a glass vial with some flakes (left in the photo). The biggest one was about 8mm, and when I saw it, I was impressed, as you don't find flakes that big in Austria that easily. But Scotland is different. Camplady: "We had some gold earlier, but it changed its colour, so I told the guy 'this isn't gold', bring me real one - and he came back with this." The gold had been found in the area. So there WAS gold after all. Also, I had seen some really nice pieces of Scottish gold on the internet and heard talk that even a nugget wasn't entirely impossible. So I gave it a try. And look what I found! My vial is the right one - and on the coin I put my biggest finds:



I found the C-shaped one and the tree smaller ones all in one pan of material out of a crevice in the exposed bedrock. I couldn't believe my eyes, there they lay, at the back of my pan, not moving an inch when the water ran over them. This is actually, when I started talking to myself in amazement, while very carefully putting them in my glass-vial. Only once they were in there and I had screwed the lid on, I could breathe again. The big chunky on the left was then in my third pan of the same crevice material. Here are some bigger photos (magnified by 60x):



The big one on the left is about 5mm. Aren't they gorgeous? When I shake the vial, I hear a metallic clinging sound. Funnily enough, after I had found these chunks, the other pans with crevice material were empty. Not even a single speck of gold...

I did find more in the region, but nothing huge, just little specks. Saying that, I am aware that tiny specks in my Austrian river would have freaked me out a month ago . Gold spoils you quicly. It leaves you wanting more and always bigger stuff. Haha. Well, anyway, I am really happy with my finds and haven't got tired of looking at them yet.

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  1. That is some nice Gold. Did it come from the river next to the Campsite? Have you tried the river up past the Green Welly Stop in Tyndrum?

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  2. Yes, that river. Tried the one up the hill from the Green Welly Stop as well, but only found fine, smaller specks. I did, however, not really dig deep, as I didn't have the right equipment with me (e.g. a sluice to work through large amounts of gravel), so I stuck to exposed beckrock...

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