Castle hunt gives up some silver...

[Bavaria Mike]

I headed out to a swim/fishery lake hoping it was drained. When I arrived, it was not drained and campers and the little restaurant there was in full swing so I thought I would poke around the playground when the caretaker came out. He told me I couldn’t dig here, so after a little arguing he said “please” don’t dig here, so I left. Plan B was to head to the castle, my Archaeology friend told me they had spread even more dirt away from the castle ruins last week. Here’s a picture from several weeks ago, a lot of dirt has been spread out. I found two cross bow bolt tips and part of a cannon ball that trip however, on this trip I found a silver coin, lead spindle whorl, five musket balls and another piece of the cannon ball and several square nails.

Here’s the silver coin, has already been IDed as a 2 pfennig from Baden-Durlach, Friedrich VII. Magnus 1677-1709, 15mm in diameter. Obverse.

Reverse. HH, Mike

 

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[Syrena Hunter]

WoW, Awesome finds!!!. Pieces of cannon balls and musket balls obviously from an actual battle! definatly you were at the right place and at the right time! Congrats!

 

[garryson]

Congrats on the silver!!

 

[tngirl]

That is a beautiful coin...What a great spot you have to hunt! Thanks for sharing.

 

[stewielouie]

Nice silver... love the castle!

 

[BosnMate]

Things a guy in Oregon can only dream about. Great find.

 

[detectahead]

The guy at the playground did you a favor! Nice find!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Thanks all! This place is really tough to detect as the bedrock is basalt with traces of iron throughout, the detector goes crazy. HH, Mike

 

[HISPAN]

Nice Silver coin !!...congrats !

 

[Westfront]

Thanks all! This place is really tough to detect as the bedrock is basalt with traces of iron throughout, the detector goes crazy. HH, Mike

That mineralization on basalt is very bad, but to have permission to such a site is worth all that tinkle in the headphones! Nice silver!

 

[nsdq]

storm the castle , holy cow i would love to be there in your place

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[Joe Dirt]

Old castle sites are cool without finding anything! Great finds!

 

[Ohio river coin hunter]

Hey nice finds would you take more pic of the old castle, I would like to see it.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Another picture of the castle, this picture shows the cellar holes from the town that stood at the base of the castle. HH, Mike

 

[nsdq]

hit it hard happy hunting

 

[cntrydncr1]

what a great place to hunt! congrats on the nice coin!

 

[FriscoT06]

I don't remember ever seeing any castle silver! That is an awesome find! Any idea from when to when the castle was active?

 

[nearihunter]

Bosn mate: i LIKE your comment. Only from mass. Nice finds! could only dream of finding a coin from 16-1700s other than my 1copper lol. HH

 

[Ohio river coin hunter]

Thanks for the pic I like that castle, you cant find old coins in US like that keep posting what you find .