Doing paperwork for my detecting permit, then searched for a ghost town...

[Bavaria Mike]

My wife took the kids skiing yesterday so I had the afternoon to start my Detecting permit renewal and get out for a bit of research.? Stopped by the buildings and grounds dept in town, was greeted by name and they asked if I had found anything lately, some grumbling about Winter conditions came up.? I got my maps I needed and they said see you next time, nice having a good relationship with these people!? It didn?t take long to get the maps so I headed out looking for an old ghost town which is located on the edge of the army training area and on the edge of a civilian town.? I had been there about 14 years ago.? I had found the town out on a training exercise from the inside of the training area and was able to find it from the outside back then.? I searched for the ghost town for about 2 hours and couldn?t find it, dang!? But, while driving around, I found an old homestead in ruins just off the main road.
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I walked around it a bit and then started looking for the owner to ask permission.? Found the owner?s wife and asked but she said I had to ask her husband who was in the forest cutting wood.? I passed by him a few times looking for the ghost town but just decided to head home as it?s a long drive to get there anyway.? Probably won?t go back as the site is very overgrown.
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On the way home, I stopped by a church I found a few weeks ago to try a clad hunt along the road.? I suspected this site will give up hand fulls of coins but when I arrived, it was very frozen.? There was a small strip of grass without any snow on it along the road so I hunted it.? It was also hard as a rock but I just didn?t try digging anything deeper than 1?.? I managed to chip out 3.00 Euros in coins and an American nickel (18 coins) in about 20 minutes and just 1 piece of trash.? This place would probably be best hunted with a probe as my detector was going crazy with signals, was hard to pinpoint because there are 3-5 coins per square foot.? To explain the high amount of coins, it is a German tradition that after a wedding, kids will block the exit/road of the bride and groom with a rope, the newly weds have to throw coins out the window to the children before they are allowed to pass and they usually block every car and the process is repeated.? I doubt the kids recover half the coins.? Now imagine 20 weddings with this repeating = a lot of cash and fun!? Although I prefer relic hunting, it?s hard to pass up such a site guaranteed to produce battery money.? HH, Mike
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[zommbee]

Very cool finds Mike! Sounds like a very interesting place to detect. Are permits
required everywhere - parks, private land, etc? Also, are there lots of 'off limits'
areas, like WWII sites and the like?


Zommbee

[Bavaria Mike]

The permit is land specific, I request by land number. Historical sites like castles and battle fields are off limits but you can get close to them, I have a site where the original town once stood 1000 years ago, foundations are still there under a field. I'm allowed to hunt 50 meters from it. Trying to get the land around a castle ruin built in 1108 on this next permit. Parks and beaches can be hunted without a permit as far as I know, along road sides, I found 35.05 Euros yesterday, I'll post that later. I prefer to relic hunt. HH, Mike