Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Location
- Bavaria Germany
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I’ve been on vacation for the past 3 weeks and it has rained all but 3 days, we cancelled our 4 day trip but was still able to get out and do a few short day trips with the family. I have been getting out detecting but haven’t posted much, since the weather has been crap, it has caused a late harvest and I couldn’t get on the fields I wanted to and the fields I did get to didn’t produce much for the time involved, still had fun! Here are some mixed hunts and finds. I’ve been looking for a small town that died out in 1613 from a plague and have hunted several hours near the area then I found out the town is over 1 kilometer from where the described area is. In locating it, this German WWII bunker got in the way so I spent several hours detecting around it, lots of junk like something blew up here, LOL, also found a strafe of eleven 50 caliber bullets inline with the bunker a few fields over on a hilltop, I didn’t know the bunker was here as it is hidden behind some trees from the hilltop. The town I’ve been looking for is behind the tree line behind the bunker.
This is the only relic of interest that came up around the bunker, a WWII aluminum Nazi tag with the number 251 on it.
A nice 1832 silver 3 Kreuzer coin I found a few days ago, obverse.
Reverse of the 1832, it is from Sachsen Meiningen.
Found this American dog tag or ID tag just down the road from the house, didn’t think too much of it until I researched it and found out it is from WWII, stamped between 1942 and 1943. Top line is the name, second line is the soldier’s service number with T43-44 which is the type of Tetanus shot given and “O” for blood type, Third line is a “P” for religion, Protestant. The Americans only drove through this area on their way to attack a nearby town and possibly camped here near this site which would have been in April 1945.
Went back to a defensive position where I found a canon ball from a battle in 1704 and dug this Rosary necklace cross, researched the cross and found it to have been produced from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, not old enough to be from the battle. I was excited as it was laying on top of the clay line about 12” down just 30’ from where I found the canon ball but it is not old enough. It has wood inlay in the cross, surprised the wood lasted over 100 years in the forest dirt.
Obverse of an 1827 copper 1/4 Kreuzer coin.
Reverse of the 1827.
Obverse of another silver 3 Kreuzer coin, maybe late 1700s.
Reverse of the silver 3 Kreuzer.
Three glass beads I found on one field, the light blues could be up to 700 years old and the one in the middle clearly shows it was rolled into shape, I understand they were dipped and rolled into shape using a thin wooden twig, then the wood was burned out to remove it. Some of my favorite fields were harvested over the past few days but not yet plowed, hope to get on a few of them before the weekend is over and I have to go back to the grinding stone. HH, Mike
This is the only relic of interest that came up around the bunker, a WWII aluminum Nazi tag with the number 251 on it.
A nice 1832 silver 3 Kreuzer coin I found a few days ago, obverse.
Reverse of the 1832, it is from Sachsen Meiningen.
Found this American dog tag or ID tag just down the road from the house, didn’t think too much of it until I researched it and found out it is from WWII, stamped between 1942 and 1943. Top line is the name, second line is the soldier’s service number with T43-44 which is the type of Tetanus shot given and “O” for blood type, Third line is a “P” for religion, Protestant. The Americans only drove through this area on their way to attack a nearby town and possibly camped here near this site which would have been in April 1945.
Went back to a defensive position where I found a canon ball from a battle in 1704 and dug this Rosary necklace cross, researched the cross and found it to have been produced from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, not old enough to be from the battle. I was excited as it was laying on top of the clay line about 12” down just 30’ from where I found the canon ball but it is not old enough. It has wood inlay in the cross, surprised the wood lasted over 100 years in the forest dirt.
Obverse of an 1827 copper 1/4 Kreuzer coin.
Reverse of the 1827.
Obverse of another silver 3 Kreuzer coin, maybe late 1700s.
Reverse of the silver 3 Kreuzer.
Three glass beads I found on one field, the light blues could be up to 700 years old and the one in the middle clearly shows it was rolled into shape, I understand they were dipped and rolled into shape using a thin wooden twig, then the wood was burned out to remove it. Some of my favorite fields were harvested over the past few days but not yet plowed, hope to get on a few of them before the weekend is over and I have to go back to the grinding stone. HH, Mike
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