Full Metal Digger
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Hey Diggers,
I was able to get out for a couple hours yesterday after work so I went back to the woods behind my house (since it's so close). It was probably 20 or 30 minutes before I found a spot that had signals. My first good find was the keg tap. It was only 3 inches deep and just about tore my ears off! It has a number 12 on the handle. Any ideas what that means? (Del?, anyone?) I found a couple fired musket balls which are probably from the 1793 skirmish we had on that hill. I was surprised to find a Roman Hobnail (shoe nail) at about 7 inches deep. That's the first Roman item I have found behind my house. I read on a German website that the Romans had an outpost near here until the Franks drove them out in 400 AD. My last two signals of the day were both coins! The first is a 1777 Zoll Pfennig (zoll means toll) and the second was a more modern 1875 2 Pfennig. Both coins came out in really good shape and cleaned up nicely. Here's some pics. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
I was able to get out for a couple hours yesterday after work so I went back to the woods behind my house (since it's so close). It was probably 20 or 30 minutes before I found a spot that had signals. My first good find was the keg tap. It was only 3 inches deep and just about tore my ears off! It has a number 12 on the handle. Any ideas what that means? (Del?, anyone?) I found a couple fired musket balls which are probably from the 1793 skirmish we had on that hill. I was surprised to find a Roman Hobnail (shoe nail) at about 7 inches deep. That's the first Roman item I have found behind my house. I read on a German website that the Romans had an outpost near here until the Franks drove them out in 400 AD. My last two signals of the day were both coins! The first is a 1777 Zoll Pfennig (zoll means toll) and the second was a more modern 1875 2 Pfennig. Both coins came out in really good shape and cleaned up nicely. Here's some pics. Thanks for looking and HH, Dave.
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