Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I’ve been associating with other Historical Societies in our area, great being around these people and also found two others with detectors. At a meeting a few weeks ago I suggested we seek permission to detect an Archaeological site known as the Bee Keep, one of the members said he would ask the chief Archaeologist. We received permission to detect everything except the inner core of the round house, the Archaeologist knows all of us and I have worked with him several times and have developed a great relationship over a few years. This site was found by a man in his 80s, he found it deep in the woods when he was a child and was always intrigued by the large round foundation. He approached the Archaeologists a few years ago and they took an interest and excavated it. It was determined this site was a Bee Keep producing honey and wax from the early 1400s. A picture of the Bee Keep, still an ongoing dig site.
Just beyond the Bee Keep you can see an open area. Myself, like everyone including the Archies thought it was a dried up pond. My buddy explained the Archies brought in a Geologist who took core samples and determined it was a marsh/swamp and not a pond. Which was good in the Medieval days because you always had roofing material with the reeds and swamp grass.
We detected for a good 1.5 hours and none of us had found anything other than modern round nails, brass ammo casings and a little trash. We were at the point that we hoped to find maybe a square nail. I went back around the foundation of the Bee Keep again and got a weak iron signal then a strong iron signal. Dug a small piece of iron and at first glance thought it was a square nail, yelled over to my buddies I had found a square nail, they came running down to have a look, LOL, one guy said it looks more like a handle piece and I agreed and said there was something else near the hole and dug up the bigger piece then a smaller piece. It was a Medieval knife used to cut the wax combs out of the hive. This was the only find dating to the site, I found it just 3’/1Mtr from the front door of the Bee Keep.
This is an information board the Archies posted at the site, you can see a similar knife in the upper left and a few other finds they made while digging. We have a few other projects in the works, one is a possible Celtic mound grave, it’s a mysterious mound of rocks in the middle of the forest out of place. This will be excavated and if we find anything, we will have to stop work and call the Archaeologists. The chief archaeologist said he wants to see the site before he grants us permission. HH, Mike
Just beyond the Bee Keep you can see an open area. Myself, like everyone including the Archies thought it was a dried up pond. My buddy explained the Archies brought in a Geologist who took core samples and determined it was a marsh/swamp and not a pond. Which was good in the Medieval days because you always had roofing material with the reeds and swamp grass.
We detected for a good 1.5 hours and none of us had found anything other than modern round nails, brass ammo casings and a little trash. We were at the point that we hoped to find maybe a square nail. I went back around the foundation of the Bee Keep again and got a weak iron signal then a strong iron signal. Dug a small piece of iron and at first glance thought it was a square nail, yelled over to my buddies I had found a square nail, they came running down to have a look, LOL, one guy said it looks more like a handle piece and I agreed and said there was something else near the hole and dug up the bigger piece then a smaller piece. It was a Medieval knife used to cut the wax combs out of the hive. This was the only find dating to the site, I found it just 3’/1Mtr from the front door of the Bee Keep.
This is an information board the Archies posted at the site, you can see a similar knife in the upper left and a few other finds they made while digging. We have a few other projects in the works, one is a possible Celtic mound grave, it’s a mysterious mound of rocks in the middle of the forest out of place. This will be excavated and if we find anything, we will have to stop work and call the Archaeologists. The chief archaeologist said he wants to see the site before he grants us permission. HH, Mike
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I like the wax knife as well ! Lets hope you get to spend some more time there ! M.R.
....So you did very well to find that nice little relic! WTG!
I don't mine the honey bee but yellow jackets , wasps , and hornets are a different story ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
