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Hey Diggers, Besides the cannonball in my other post I also got a couple cool finds in the same area. The area I was detecting in had been hit pretty hard by me and the other guys in my group. I could see dig scars all over the place. I was mostly looking in areas where there were no dig...

Hey diggers, Yesterday I took a vacation day and went detecting at the 1600's siege site. Tom and Justin were able to join me. I got a faint high tone that sounded pretty sweet. I figured it was a coin or button perhaps. After I had dug down over a foot and still had not reached it I...

Hey diggers, The guys and I drove about an hour to an amazing site we were told about. During the 1600s and early 1700s the French laid siege to a castle on 5 different occasions. The castle is all gone now but the area where the armies camped is all public forest. It's been hunted for years...

Hi Diggers, Between work and family I'm only able to get out for a couple hours on Sunday mornings. Luckily the weather has been warmer than normal this month. I found a good array of relics and coins ranging from about 200 A.D. up to the mid 20th century. Here is some pics. I hope you enjoy...

Hey diggers, I say "dream bucket list" because some things you don't think you'll ever find so you don't even entertain the thought. Today I was detecting a new stretch of woods right next to a small village founded in 1260 (or so). I was right at the edge of the tree line and had such a...

Hey diggers, Today I took off from work just to go detecting! The spot I wanted to detect is along an old medieval road that used to connect my village to a neighboring village. There's a nice patch of woods with a small knoll at the point where the road makes a sharp turn. It looked very...

Hey Diggers, You may recall a few weeks ago I found a bronze Roman Goddess Head (Venus?) at a Roman site I was detecting. I had a couple different offers from people (some were just stupid). I told folks the only thing I would trade for is a hammered gold coin. Well, someone took me up on my...

Hey Diggers, I've only been able to get out on Sunday mornings for a little detecting this month. Between work and family there's not much time left in the day! Here's some pics of my September finds. They span about 1,800 years (give or take). The Nazi belt buckle is of course a bucket list...

It turns out the brooch is from the 12th or 13th centuries and was worn by ladies on the front of their cloak (near the neck).

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...

Hey Diggers, My friend Tom came over and we spent about 3 hours detecting the woods behind my village. Slim pickings for both of us although he got a beautiful 1733 silver 4 Hellers coin. I did manage 2 relics from the early 1700's. Probably my best shoe buckle ever as well as a very tiny...

Hi Diggers, I spent about 4 hours in the woods behind my house this morning. I invited my detecting buddies Tom & Mike (and his son Robert) to join me. We started at about 6:30 (just as the sun was coming up). Finds were really slow at first. My first good target came after more than an hour...

Howdy Diggers, I hunted 2 different sites this weekend and got Roman coins at both! Funny how there's something you want to find but you can't find it to save your life, and then BOOM, it's suddenly all you can find! LOL. I even found 2 Romans at the medieval woods where I found the giant...

Have you considered Revolutionary War period? Here's a pic of a British RW buckle.

Hey Diggers, There was so much Roman activity around here for about 700 years that relics and coins can be found just about anywhere you detect. The Romans loved hilltops (probably for their strategic location). I was detecting a hilltop and found a few Roman coins, a Roman sandal nail, and a...

Hey Diggers, I was able to get in about 3 hours of detecting this morning so I headed to the Medieval woods where I have done so well lately. Not a lot of signals but I did get a few coins and musket balls. Big surprise was a giant Roman coin only 4 inches deep! It has a very fragile patina...

Hey Diggers, What a hunt I had this morning! I met up with Russ at 6 a.m. at the medieval woods we've been hunting lately. Finds were slow but steady. We pretty much hunt in different directions when we're out in the woods (there's plenty of room for everyone). At some point he called me on...

Hey Diggers, I got out for 5 hours this morning in the same stretch of woods I hunted last week. I was not disappointed! The finds weren't really concentrated in any one area just sort of evenly scattered through the woods. Here's some pics. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.

Hey Diggers, I was looking at a German website for hiking trails in our area and stumbled across a reference to a French/Prussian battle in 1793. It's practically in the middle of nowhere and there is a hiking trail that goes across it. The website told hikers to be on the lookout for a large...

Hey diggers, It turns out there was a famous battle between the French and the Prussians only 6 miles from my house. I spent the weekend traipsing through the woods looking for one of the French camps shown on an old military map. I did find the camp but not much in the way of relics. Mostly...