Bavaria Mike
Gold Member
- Feb 7, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Finally getting around to posting my museum display. We had a nice grand opening with a champagne toast, a few guest speakers, town mayor, journalists and many people. The theme was “old town business”, the town got together with the owners of the buildings that make the inner town, they were all businesses at some point in history. Everyone donated something from the antique businesses of yesterday, most items were still in their boxes with a faded price tags. Some items were from the early 1800s, a very nice display. My display came out very nice, a collection of my favorite finds. There is no mention of metal detecting for political reasons. Here’s the empty case.
The display complete however, it is a work in progress and I still have some fine tuning to do.
These are caltrops and a huge door key.
Musket balls, percussion gun works, small canon balls from a hook gun.
Canon balls, coin weights, apothecary weight, nesting weights. The nesting weights can date back to the late 1600s to early 1700s, archies found a set at the shipwreck of Blackbeard, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, http://www.qaronline.org/ , interesting site to visit. These weights were designed the way they were only to be stacked within each other to save space, it is often confused with putting something in them to be weighed, which defeats the purpose because you would need another set of weights.
17 wax seal matrixes, two are rings.
Crossbow bolt tips, long bow arrow tip, lead seals and lead spindle whorls. I don’t have close up pictures of everything in the case. I may get to the museum today as I want to conserve a few items and make a few changes.
A friend received a tip on a hunt site, supposedly an offensive position that attacked a castle with earth works. We chased down the site, found the earth works but nothing old. We determined it was a WWII site, fun hunt and busted a myth. Earth works.
Earth works.
More earth works.
Some finds from the local fields this past week. I like finding some of this old junk, LOL.
A nice little cross, unfortunately broken and a brooch.
Three musket balls, a brass weight and a brass or bronze ring.
Coins, 1858, silver 1840ish, 1874, not sure of the bottom two, probably around the 1800s.
Reverse of the coins, bottom right was converted into a button. HH, Mike
The display complete however, it is a work in progress and I still have some fine tuning to do.
These are caltrops and a huge door key.
Musket balls, percussion gun works, small canon balls from a hook gun.
Canon balls, coin weights, apothecary weight, nesting weights. The nesting weights can date back to the late 1600s to early 1700s, archies found a set at the shipwreck of Blackbeard, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, http://www.qaronline.org/ , interesting site to visit. These weights were designed the way they were only to be stacked within each other to save space, it is often confused with putting something in them to be weighed, which defeats the purpose because you would need another set of weights.
17 wax seal matrixes, two are rings.
Crossbow bolt tips, long bow arrow tip, lead seals and lead spindle whorls. I don’t have close up pictures of everything in the case. I may get to the museum today as I want to conserve a few items and make a few changes.
A friend received a tip on a hunt site, supposedly an offensive position that attacked a castle with earth works. We chased down the site, found the earth works but nothing old. We determined it was a WWII site, fun hunt and busted a myth. Earth works.
Earth works.
More earth works.
Some finds from the local fields this past week. I like finding some of this old junk, LOL.
A nice little cross, unfortunately broken and a brooch.
Three musket balls, a brass weight and a brass or bronze ring.
Coins, 1858, silver 1840ish, 1874, not sure of the bottom two, probably around the 1800s.
Reverse of the coins, bottom right was converted into a button. HH, Mike
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Give me a couple of years on station and I will be back over there to give you a hand. 8)
