Always give that "trash" a second look!

[Jeremy S]

Here are a couple of cleaned up pieces that I found this year. I initially tossed them in my trash bag but decided to clean them up after looking them over a second time.

The top one was a jumpy VDI# of 60-70 tone and looked like a piece of old sheet metal, it was found at an old home site. The second item was also a jumpy VDI of around 70 and was found at an old school. The "before" picture shows it just after rinsing off some of the mud. A short time in my rock tumbler revealed a lot more! There were several other concentric or square shaped pieces of metal that turned out to be nothing more that scrap pieces of sheet metal and other trash.

 

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[mindcrime1988]

Always inspect your finds

I agree with you Jeremy S. It pays to really check your finds because you never know what a little cleaning & inspection may reveal. I once found a Totenkopf which was caked with mud and all I saw were two bent tabs sticking out from an unknown metal piece. I was getting ready to trash it when I decided to put it in my pocket so I could inspect it later on because I had just started a long day of detecting. About 5 hours later and the relic bouncing around in my pocket, the mud had dried up and fallen off. When I went to retrieve it from my pocket at the end of the day and took a second look...............let's just say I was floored! I posted a photo of this a little over two years ago but this is a perfect example to definitely take a second look at your finds because you never know!

***I found this while I was stationed in Germany.

 

[I DIG]

Had this in my trash bag.