Bavaria Mike
Gold Member
- Feb 7, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
A beautiful and crazy day. At work they are installing a new water line around our office, today they found an artillery round about 4 meters from my desk while digging. The round is German from WWI to WWII, I was informed that our office was built over a training artillery firing point from the early 1900s. They evacuated us at 10:30 AM, go home with pay, LOL, so I went detecting with all that free time and a beautiful day. Went to a castle built in 1107 that had a town built around it. This post has my last three hunts and finds included. A picture of another castle, to the right of the church steeple, built in 1107, I detected the loose plowed field at the bottom. Found two coins, a square copper coin from 1786 and a round copper from 1826, no picture as they are sitting on my desk at work. Was hoping for better finds but I’ll take what I can.
This castle was also built in 1107, a town of about 50 houses lined the base of the castle, every dip in the terrain was a house in the picture. Luckily, someone has installed those four legged lawn mowers, sheep and goats, they are moving the sheep across the old homestead foundations so I detected the steep foundations on the right, the grass is only about 4” high but it was tough detecting along the slope. The town thrived from 1107 to 1750, when it burned down from a lightning strike and the village decided to rebuild lower on the mountain. They took every stone and building material except the foundation stones to rebuild, including the castle walls. Up until 1750, the town and castle had also battled three wars. The only reason I have permission to detect here is because others also detect here. I have been a member of the Historical Society for 7 years now and I am trusted and would love to get a display case in the museum but they cost a few boxtops, LOL.
I almost stepped on a snake today, dang thing slithered between my legs. It was only 18” long, dark grey/black with orange spots behind its ears. I was detecting near the many cellar holes below the town. I have been in most of them but they have deteriorated over 20 years, some have collapsed. Here’s the finds, eye finds, top is a snake skin I found digging into a foundation, half a ball maybe a large marble and a glass button.
A few pieces of lead.
Some hand forged nails, not sure of their age but probably pre 1750.
A few coins, 1851, 1908, beer token, 1874, 1924, tiny silver 1859.
The other side of the coins.
Six buttons, a key, a hand forged nail bent into an intricate shape, could it be a striker for a flint piece? A FOB or probably a harness mount, was gold plated, half of a heal plate and an intact harmonica reed. I have had some good hunts lately, just not finding anything great where it should be, LOL. HH, Mike
This castle was also built in 1107, a town of about 50 houses lined the base of the castle, every dip in the terrain was a house in the picture. Luckily, someone has installed those four legged lawn mowers, sheep and goats, they are moving the sheep across the old homestead foundations so I detected the steep foundations on the right, the grass is only about 4” high but it was tough detecting along the slope. The town thrived from 1107 to 1750, when it burned down from a lightning strike and the village decided to rebuild lower on the mountain. They took every stone and building material except the foundation stones to rebuild, including the castle walls. Up until 1750, the town and castle had also battled three wars. The only reason I have permission to detect here is because others also detect here. I have been a member of the Historical Society for 7 years now and I am trusted and would love to get a display case in the museum but they cost a few boxtops, LOL.
I almost stepped on a snake today, dang thing slithered between my legs. It was only 18” long, dark grey/black with orange spots behind its ears. I was detecting near the many cellar holes below the town. I have been in most of them but they have deteriorated over 20 years, some have collapsed. Here’s the finds, eye finds, top is a snake skin I found digging into a foundation, half a ball maybe a large marble and a glass button.
A few pieces of lead.
Some hand forged nails, not sure of their age but probably pre 1750.
A few coins, 1851, 1908, beer token, 1874, 1924, tiny silver 1859.
The other side of the coins.
Six buttons, a key, a hand forged nail bent into an intricate shape, could it be a striker for a flint piece? A FOB or probably a harness mount, was gold plated, half of a heal plate and an intact harmonica reed. I have had some good hunts lately, just not finding anything great where it should be, LOL. HH, Mike
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I try not to be jealous of all the great spots you have to detect there. 
thanks for showing us the places you hunt 
