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Hey diggers, I could hear the rain beating against my windows as I was getting dressed at o-dark-thirty this morning. A quick check of the radar and it looks like it will stop in about an hour or two. I hit the road and headed to my new honey hole, the siege site. 3 major sieges there. 1676...

OMG! My buddy kept looking at the pics I posted on Facebook and realized it ended in POUR VOUS. Of course that means "FOR YOU" in French. I took some more pics with my USB Microscope and I actually figured it out! (with the help of google translate). The matrix says "JE TOUT TU ITE POUR...

Hey Diggers, Yesterday I got a bucket list item at the 1600's siege site. My very first wax seal matrix. It's actually made of tombac and quite heavy. The seal itself appears to be romantic in nature so maybe this one was used by a French soldier writing letters to his wife or sweetheart. I...

Hi Friends, I spent 8 1/2 hours detecting non-stop today at the 1600's siege site. I found some amazing relics which I will save for another post. I did also find 3 silver coins, all 1600's! The King Leopold (known as Hog Jowl) is my favorite and in a very high grade. I'm considering getting...

Hi Diggers, The other day I went detecting in an area where Roman coins can be found. Between myself, Russ, and Tom, we found 22 coins in 4 hours. I found 6 but 4 were completely rotted and crumbled into dust once they dried out. Here's the 2 that could be saved. I spent about 40 minutes...

I am so blessed to have good health, a wonderful family, great friends, and a hobby that excites me and keeps me motivated!

Hey Diggers, We've been finding a lot of coins from the 1600's and 1700's at the siege site. They are generally 8 or 9 inches deep and ring up very faint or choppy. Most of the time they are so faint the XP Deus doesn't show any numbers on the display. The two 1656 French Liards were only a...

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...