Snow hunt today and finds from the last few hunts, Lots of Pictures...

[Bavaria Mike]

I got out today when a snowstorm hit, was 29F/-2C with about 3” of snow. Was able to detect for 1.5 hours. Here’s a picture of the field, the snow and wind was blowing hard.

Snapped this picture out the backyard shortly before I left.

Today’s finds, not really junk but the undesirables.

The keepers from today. A military button with a “3” on it, button, harness rivet, tiny bowl weight, lead seal, small rosette made of aluminum, not old and a tootsie road roller.

Here’s a field I did several hunts on over the past two weeks.

The lead. 3 musket balls, a large whatsit that could be a weight, 11 lead seals and a corner piece from a printing plate.

Closer view of the printing plate and oriented, I can’t make out much.

Two religious pendants, left has an angel with wings, right is in poor condition.

Reverse of the religious pendants.

A small heart shaped bracelet clasp and a pin given out during WWII to volunteers, made of zinc.

Reverse of the heart clasp and WWII pin, surprised the pin remains!

Date side of 4 silver coins, 1849, 1828, 1856, 18??

Two seal matrixes dating around the mid 1800s to early 1900s. Left initials N.B. and right initials C.M. I mirrored the image to make it clear.

Top of the seal matrixes.

A German WWII political pin, I like these. HH and don’t eat any yellow snow, Mike

 

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[CRUSADER]

Good variation of finds

 

[Nana40]

The snow is beautiful, but I don't think I could hold out to hunt in it.

Super bunch of finds, Mike! And great pics!!!

Nana

 

[Trond]

Nice collection.

 

[civilman1]

Wind,Rain,and even Snow....Doesn't matter,look's like you'll be still pulling the good's no matter what!!! Sweet Dig's...I'm Jealous!!

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very awesome finds! Man that must have been cold to hunt in!

 

[mistergee]

you are truly out of your mind ....the only thing i would be huntin in that weather is deer

 

[watercolor]

Mike, great hunt!

Those seal matrixes are really nice!

Stay warm!
watercolor

 

[kdismuke1]

GREAT FINDS MIKE. BEST OF LUCK.

 

[HolyDiver]

Glad you had some good finds going out in that type of weather!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Thanks all! I probably would not be so hardcore had I not gone to Colchester UK detecting. Realizing you pay big buck$ for a detecting trip and thinking what if it rains or snows? I was detecting in the worst weather months before I went on that trip just to get conditioned and in shape for 9 hours detecting a day, 7 days. It's all about how you dress and learning a few tricks. It is funny as today is the day I left for the UK detecting trip, 4 years ago, had spaghetti for Thanksgiving day, LOL. We have about 6" of snow now and my wife and daughter are going skiing. I'm going to try the same spot as yesterday as being on a hill side the wind blows a lot of the snow off, I hope, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[Eugeniu]

Wow Great Finds

 

[treasurefiend]

Great haul!!!

 

[Collymore]

Yo Mike!

You should try and go to the Officers school at Bad Tölz, there must be thousands of items there on the training grounds, its been a military school for 200 years.

just my opinion.

Great stuff

 

[allen]

congrats on all of those great looking finds...

 

[ModernMiner]

Mike,
I'm going to start calling you "The Iceman". Dang, that looks cold. Was the ground frozen?
That is a huge assortment of cool finds. Way to go.
Any idea why you are finding all of those lead seals? Railroad near by?
Congrats Mike.
-Doug-

 

[Roger Mn.]

Nice bunch of finds Mike.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Hey Collymore, I have been to Bad Tolz military academy, it was an American professional soldier academy in the the 1980s. Rumor is, it goes down several levels underground that are flooded and there are intact Messerschmidt planes and WWII German tanks down there, I wonder? The Americans gave it back to Germany in the 1990s, I do wonder what could be found around the grounds? Modern Miner, these are lead bag seals for commodities like Rye meal, Wheat Flour, salt and seeds, more farm related and not RR related. I will get back to RR hunts when it freezes. HH, Mike

 

[shaun7]

this is my first winter on this forum and i'm starting to think that you all need help

worth it though for all those nice finds! do you keep the coil above the snow or just plough through it?

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Hi Shaun, it is nice to have another UK poster here, I always enjoy the finds. You are correct, we all need help and help me out if you know of a new site to detect, LOL. I consider it therapeutic and not addictive. I keep the coil above the snow. I was out again today, gonna try to post the hunt this evening. HH, Mike