More finds from the stone age field!

[Westfront]

More finds from the stone age field! Update Saxon/Viking Stirrup Mount

Yesterday i had a little time to detect and went for 2 1/2 hours to the stone age field. As expected not many metal finds. Usual stuff, some musket balls, scrappy coins, but managed a beautiful harness mount with a cat maybe lion. Hope Cru can make a date on it....think medieval. But the best of the day was one little musket ball. When i dug it i hit a stone which turned out as a "COMPLETE!" neolithic grinding stone! Whoohoo! Almost impossible to find. They were used as long as the stone last. Which means they were used till the middle part was so thin that the stone breaks in half. Thinking about this one i returned today with a probe and a bigger spade. Some metres from the first stone i hit something at about 20". Another part of a grinding stone! Carefully walking the area three more fragments were found. One of them matching the one i found with the probe. All other hunts at this site brought me some nice finds, but this weekend proves that this was a neolithic settlement not only a summer hunting camp. Our archie will fall right over tomorrow when he looks at the pics. A grinding stone like this is just freakin awesome. The last time it was in someones hands is 7000 years ago. A woman grinding corn for baking bread..... Here the pics!

 

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Fine Stone Age grinding bowl.
Beautiful lion battle.
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[Westfront]

Thanks all for Your words and votes! :-) Had a conversation today with a specialist in neolithic artifacts. Only three grinding stones with matching counter piece are known in our part of germany. Still waiting for some info on the stirrup mount. My archie is still in shock i guess...

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks all for Your words and votes! :-) Had a conversation today with a specialist in neolithic artifacts. Only three grinding stones with matching counter piece are known in our part of germany. Still waiting for some info on the stirrup mount. My archie is still in shock i guess...

If I was your Archie, I would be in double shock, we lead the way.

 

[uglymailman]

Very cool Lu! Good Ju Ju at that site. When do ya start the big dig?

 

[Westfront]

Very cool Lu! Good Ju Ju at that site. When do ya start the big dig?

Hi Tim! Don't know when to start....maybe after the next plow. Right now You find more potatoes there than anything else!

 

[cuzcosquirrel]

Nice finds.

The mount is very nice, very interesting.

 

[Giant056]

Awesome bunch of finds for sure

 

[Westfront]

I had a short conversation with my archie today. He is very busy so it took a week to get him. Usually i take my finds in once a year (and it takes to the next year to get them back), but this time i'm invited to bring them in as soon as possible. As a specialist in Stone age he's very excited. His colleague wants to see the mount in person as she is the one for metal finds... We will see what they have to say!

 

[CRUSADER]

I had a short conversation with my archie today. He is very busy so it took a week to get him. Usually i take my finds in once a year (and it takes to the next year to get them back), but this time i'm invited to bring them in as soon as possible. As a specialist in Stone age he's very excited. His colleague wants to see the mount in person as she is the one for metal finds... We will see what they have to say!

I'm interested in the results, & wonder how common Saxon/Viking Period Stirrup Mounts turn up in your area, in fact I have no knowledge of how many turn up in Germany at all.

 

[Westfront]

I'm interested in the results, & wonder how common Saxon/Viking Period Stirrup Mounts turn up in your area, in fact I have no knowledge of how many turn up in Germany at all.

I have NEVER heard about Saxon/Viking finds in my area. Nobody believes this find right now... Up north at the Denmark border, ok. That was viking land. But here the romans were expelled from the franconians and no signs of viking activity are known. It is a long way down the rhine from the shore to Cologne and then a one days ride on the old roman road to where it was found. Remember how often i was jealous when looking at Your Saxon finds over there? I said i have to come over to get Saxon...

 

[CRUSADER]

I have NEVER heard about Saxon/Viking finds in my area. Nobody believes this find right now... Up north at the Denmark border, ok. That was viking land. But here the romans were expelled from the franconians and no signs of viking activity are known. It is a long way down the rhine from the shore to Cologne and then a one days ride on the old roman road to where it was found. Remember how often i was jealous when looking at Your Saxon finds over there? I said i have to come over to get Saxon...

I know this is special because the imagery is so sharp. This was made with great skill & not copied, from others, that were copied, which would create a more debased image. I have no knowledge of your History, but the Anglo-Saxon's that copied these from the Scandinavians originated from your country, so I know we have connections. The best person to get thoughts from would be a Scandinavian Museum, maybe one of the present Tnet members from Sweden/Denmark could help? (I have PMed 1 of them)