woody50
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- Jun 21, 2007
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22 January Forgot to say, I was lucky to get out at all yesterday, today its raining buckets.... the whole day!
23 January, 13:30, still raining, no detecting!
Finally could get out and dig in the ground, it's thawed out now. Close where I live a farmhouse was demolished,
so I knew where to go. The farmhouse was from the 19th century (many of those had been rapidly built, and were
nowadays is bad condition), but there were farmhouse previously on the lot for centuries past. In the past I had
found two small pieces of a beautiful round gold hanger there which was from the 15th or earlier century, so my
hopes were high. But I saw pretty quickly that the ground had not been dug deeply, only a few pieces of 17th
century pottery and a piece of tile from the early 1600's was laying on the surface. But I still wanted to search,
it has been a long time since I had done that.
The farmhouse was of the 4 sided type, the type were built around a heavy wooden 4 sided construction, which
provided the backbone for the house. Because the rest of the house was in very poor condition it was removed.
The only thing left was then the 4-side wooden construction. It was moved in back of the lot and will be used
later to construct the new 'farmhouse type' of house.
Here a photo of the site with the 4-sided wood construction moved away a bit, a drawing of how the 4-sided
wood construction was used, and a typical 4-sided farmhouse.
I searched for about a hour, it was still cold and rainy. But I had pretty good luck with the finds, most of the time
I can only find a few things at such a site, but this time I was more lucky and there were a few nice things. Found
4 coins, all from the 17th century (earliest 1602), a clay marble, two pipe cleaners, a nice knife handle, a great
button and a knife blade in almost perfect condition (17th century). Only had to use a little electrolysis on it and
then dried and perserved it.
My finds
The neat button is from the "Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart" (Maritime College School) which was constructed in 1781.
This the the school (college) building, still in use in Amsterdam
And a photo of the 2 pipe cleaners and knife handle
23 January, 13:30, still raining, no detecting!
Finally could get out and dig in the ground, it's thawed out now. Close where I live a farmhouse was demolished,
so I knew where to go. The farmhouse was from the 19th century (many of those had been rapidly built, and were
nowadays is bad condition), but there were farmhouse previously on the lot for centuries past. In the past I had
found two small pieces of a beautiful round gold hanger there which was from the 15th or earlier century, so my
hopes were high. But I saw pretty quickly that the ground had not been dug deeply, only a few pieces of 17th
century pottery and a piece of tile from the early 1600's was laying on the surface. But I still wanted to search,
it has been a long time since I had done that.
The farmhouse was of the 4 sided type, the type were built around a heavy wooden 4 sided construction, which
provided the backbone for the house. Because the rest of the house was in very poor condition it was removed.
The only thing left was then the 4-side wooden construction. It was moved in back of the lot and will be used
later to construct the new 'farmhouse type' of house.
Here a photo of the site with the 4-sided wood construction moved away a bit, a drawing of how the 4-sided
wood construction was used, and a typical 4-sided farmhouse.
I searched for about a hour, it was still cold and rainy. But I had pretty good luck with the finds, most of the time
I can only find a few things at such a site, but this time I was more lucky and there were a few nice things. Found
4 coins, all from the 17th century (earliest 1602), a clay marble, two pipe cleaners, a nice knife handle, a great
button and a knife blade in almost perfect condition (17th century). Only had to use a little electrolysis on it and
then dried and perserved it.
My finds
The neat button is from the "Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart" (Maritime College School) which was constructed in 1781.
This the the school (college) building, still in use in Amsterdam
And a photo of the 2 pipe cleaners and knife handle
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