Full Metal Digger
08-26-2018, 01:30 PM
Hi Diggers,
Got up bright and early this morning to meet Tom for some detecting. It was a brisk 37 degrees! We met up and went to check out a new site that was near a medieval castle site. The hill we were on was covered in bomb shrapnels. My detector was going crazy. When we got to the top we found the ruins of a Nazi bunker that must have gotten blown to hell during WW2! Somehow, in all the debris, Tom managed to find a medieval ring buckle from about 1300! I found nothing.
We decided to head to another spot nearby. By chance, we ended up in the same woods where I got the 5-coin spill with 2 silvers about 2 months ago. This place is well known and has been picked over but you can still make good finds there. After about 30 minutes I was working up a steep hill and got a scratchy signal about 6 inches deep. The soil is very rocky and digging is difficult. When I finally got the target out I thought it was a clock hand at first. Then I realized it was a bronze arrowhead! My second Bronze Age arrowhead in 4 months (approx 1,800 to 700 B.C.) Luckily I managed to get it out of the ground without damaging it.
I found a couple other items but honestly, I hardly remember them! LOL.
Got up bright and early this morning to meet Tom for some detecting. It was a brisk 37 degrees! We met up and went to check out a new site that was near a medieval castle site. The hill we were on was covered in bomb shrapnels. My detector was going crazy. When we got to the top we found the ruins of a Nazi bunker that must have gotten blown to hell during WW2! Somehow, in all the debris, Tom managed to find a medieval ring buckle from about 1300! I found nothing.
We decided to head to another spot nearby. By chance, we ended up in the same woods where I got the 5-coin spill with 2 silvers about 2 months ago. This place is well known and has been picked over but you can still make good finds there. After about 30 minutes I was working up a steep hill and got a scratchy signal about 6 inches deep. The soil is very rocky and digging is difficult. When I finally got the target out I thought it was a clock hand at first. Then I realized it was a bronze arrowhead! My second Bronze Age arrowhead in 4 months (approx 1,800 to 700 B.C.) Luckily I managed to get it out of the ground without damaging it.
I found a couple other items but honestly, I hardly remember them! LOL.