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Hello friends, I was able to get out this last Sunday to that castle ruins about 15 miles from my home. The castle was built in the late 12th century with the first recorded reference being in 1237. I spent about 3 hours hiking around looking for good spots to detect and settled on a flat...

Hello Friends, Have you heard about this type of money before? I only recently discovered it and I must admit I really like it. I find the bills to be very artistic and beautiful. Their story is interesting. During WW1 and shortly after, Germany had a problem with no money in circulation...

Hey diggers, I was able to get out last weekend to a spot about an hour from here. It's a forest area and on the German maps it's name translates to "French Trenches." This area corresponds with a French map from a battle in 1734. It is not a secret place and has been detected countless times...

This may have happened to you but the wife has been giving me grief about going metal detecting "too much." Well, this morning I was getting ready to go out and hopefully find some awesome relics and I see a note taped to my detector. It says "This isn't working anymore." Right away a million...

Hey Diggers, I found an exciting relic this last weekend! A medieval door latch. The front plate is missing but you can see where the skeleton key went. It is very ornate and is hand-engraved with flowers and flourishes. I put it through 36 hours of electrolysis followed by a coating of...

Hello Friends, Yesterday I went detecting with my buddies up in the Jura Mountains. It's a 2-hour drive from my house. The weather was great. Temps in the upper 30's but sunny and no wind. We were finding a lot of medieval relics and coins (another post once I get everything cleaned up)...

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Hello friends, As you all know, I recently went on a 8-day trip detecting in Bavaria. On the way there we stopped to pick up one of our German detecting buddies. You should see his display case! (Makes mine look like child's play). He was showing us an iron age socketed axe (Celtic) he had...

I dug this beautiful Celtic fibula on the first day of my Bavarian trip. This is the second one I have found and dates to 3rd century B.C.

Hi Friends, One of the reasons I love our hobby so much is I get to learn some amazing history. Here is a coin I found in Bavaria dated 1819. While trying to identify it I learned some interesting history and thought I 'd share that with you. From the end of March 1808 until 1821 no coins...

Hi Friends, Some of you wanted to see this tiny iron buckle again once I got it cleaned up. I soaked it for 6 days in CLR and that got 99% of the rust off but the tongue was still fused into the wrong position. I soaked it for 3 hours in WD-40 and that did the trick. Over 800 years old and...

Hello Diggers, On my recent trip to Bavaria I was having a pretty bad morning (relatively speaking) and wasn't finding anything good. After 2 hours of nothing I got as scratchy signal that jumped between iron and high tones. I always dig those signals because it usually means an iron arrowhead...

Hello Friends, Here is some of the good iron targets I dug. The first picture contains a Roman tent peg, stone chisel set, and assorted nails. They all probably date 100 to 300 A.D. The last pic is 2 Celtic knife blades. The Celtics used very distinctive shapes for their knives. These...

Hello Friends, Here is some of the buckles I found (I'm still cleaning the others) in Bavaria. The bottom left and far right are 1500's while the rest are 1700's. The buckle on the right is the male half of a two-piece "marriage" buckle. The pics show how the two halves go together. These...

Hello Friends, I just finished 8 days of glorious detecting in Bavaria with 4 buddies. Why Bavaria you ask? Of the 16 German States, Bavaria is the only one that lets you keep whatever you find (the land owner can ask for half though). We were detecting an old forest area (in the rain of...

Hi Friends, Me and 5 detecting buddies are heading to Bavaria on Oct 9th for 8 days of nothin' but detecting, drinking beer, and enjoying great Bavarian cuisine! This is our third trip and in the past we have found Bronze Age, Celtic, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance coins and relics. I have...

Hey diggers, I was detecting a plowed field and got a screamer signal. Turned out to be a late 1700's apothecary weight. This particular type is called nested cups because each one sits inside the next. What is so neat about this one is it has 9 different date stamps where it was certified as...

Hello Friends, Here is some of my better bronze artifacts found over here in Germany. Dates range from roughly 1,600 B.C. to about 300 A.D. Here's the list (date ranges are approximate of course) Bronze Age Axe & Sickle Blade & Arrowheads ca. 16th to 10th century B.C. Celtic Arm Band ca. 10th...

Hi fellow diggers, Here are my buckles after 2 years of detecting in Germany. All 1200's to 1700's (mostly 1600's and 1700's though).