2x Silver and maybe a hunting spear

Baribal · Mar 8, 2020

After a couple of weeks I finally made it out again. Only had 1.5h but therefor it was quite okay.
2 coins from German Empire
1 from Weimar Republic
2 bavarian (silver/billon) coins from 1840 and 1870
1 ring (18th-19th century)
Wasn't quite sure about the spearhead. First thought it might be part of a fence. Others with more experience than me identified it as a potentially medieval spearhead. The prince-bishop's hunting area is quite close so that might be true. Gonna send it to our archaeologist and see what he says.

Hvactech19 · Mar 8, 2020

Do some electrolysis on that spear thing!

Baribal · Mar 8, 2020

Hvactech19 said:
Do some electrolysis on that spear thing!

No! Too aggressive!
First the archaeologist gets it. If he says it's a spear I'm gonna put it in destilled water for a couple of weeks/months (depends on how old it is). Then I'll cook it in paraffin.

CRUSADER · Mar 8, 2020

Might be Roman!

Baribal · Mar 8, 2020

CRUSADER said:
Might be Roman!

Definitely not! They haven't even been close to the area I search at
I think medieval might be right

CRUSADER · Mar 8, 2020

Baribal said:
Definitely not! They haven't even been close to the area I search at
I think medieval might be right

If it is, its an early period one.

Baribal · Mar 8, 2020

I think I should definitely start digging iron signals now!
This one was a lucky coincidence since the signal was similar to a silver signal

Professor of Engineering · Mar 8, 2020

Nice finds, congrats! :occasion14:

xcopperstax · Mar 9, 2020

That is an amazing find on top of some great coin finds. For your sake I hope it turns out to be something with some great history!

Baribal · Mar 9, 2020

Sent my archaeologist a mail today and he only answered it is notifiable. In my state you basically have to send in a report for every artifact you find which is older than from 16th century. So I'd say that thing is at least from medieval times. Hope I'll get more feedback soon.
Already found a 14t century buckle in the same area. There are also some iron age graves and settlements quite close. Gonna be interesting to dig more iron ignals even though there's a lot of iron trash in this area

djackson7348 · Mar 9, 2020

Some great history saves.

CRUSADER · Mar 9, 2020

Baribal said:
Sent my archaeologist a mail today and he only answered it is notifiable. In my state you basically have to send in a report for every artifact you find which is older than from 16th century. So I'd say that thing is at least from medieval times. Hope I'll get more feedback soon.
Already found a 14t century buckle in the same area. There are also some iron age graves and settlements quite close. Gonna be interesting to dig more iron ignals even though there's a lot of iron trash in this area

OK, update this post later please?

Westfront · Mar 9, 2020

CRUSADER said:
OK, update this post later please?

Interested as well. :icon_thumleft:

washingtonian · Mar 10, 2020

Good hunting. Congrats on the silver on really awesome relic!

Baribal · Mar 10, 2020

I'll sure update the post!
So far I've sent out the reports today. Usually the archaeologist is very fast. Hope to hear from him soon

A2coins · Mar 10, 2020

Amazing coins that's a banner if that's a bronze spear head wow

Baribal · Mar 11, 2020

Update:
Since that archaeologist is fast as hell I already got an answer:
It IS as spearhead but it's hard to say how old it is. It can be prehistoric or late medieval. Can't really date it. That means I'll go there and start digging for iron. Maybe I'll find more that helps to date the spear.
But first it got to stop raining...that area is a swamp at the moment
Btw the spearhead is not made out of bronze but iron!

CRUSADER · Mar 12, 2020

Baribal said:
Update:
Since that archaeologist is fast as hell I already got an answer:
It IS as spearhead but it's hard to say how old it is. It can be prehistoric or late medieval. Can't really date it. That means I'll go there and start digging for iron. Maybe I'll find more that helps to date the spear.
But first it got to stop raining...that area is a swamp at the moment
Btw the spearhead is not made out of bronze but iron!

Thought Roman might be a possibility.
No clues you dig nearby will help at all, as in Archaeology CONTEXT is everything, not locality. ie. unless you found an associated item in the same 'sealed layer' you can't read anything into it's meaning.
Many areas have thousands of years activity, all the clues you find will draw 'a picture' but they may not be connected at all. ie. a beer can on a Roman Site, doesn't mean the Roman's drunk Stella.