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 headed out today for the medieval gold mining area, about a 25 minute drive. When I got close, I noticed many cars and people walking around so I retreated to a grass field below the mines, was surprised so many people were in the area as it was a cold and rainy day. After an hour on this hillside field, I had only found a lead ball with a wire through it, not a seal and some kind of seal type thing or maybe a harness decoration. I moved on and thought I would get above the gold mines. Sort of got lost driving the farm roads and logging roads, glad I have a 4X4, ran into an old ski jump. The pictures of the ski jump, looking up.
And looking down, made me dizzy just standing there, LOL.
I got reoriented and remembered an old castle I had researched in the area but had never been there. Getting there was a challenge and I was able to drive within 500 meters before hiking up hill and hoping I was right. I was right and there was a marker close to the top. The archies did a dig here around 1897, they only found a few pieces of medieval clay pottery. The name of the castle is not known or who owned it and is originally suspected to be possible Celtic. It sure does look like a Celtic fortress the way it was built and I have seen several. It is close to a medieval travel route which was probably Celtic anyway. I did not find much there but it was exciting. A detector friend and I looked for this place almost 20 years ago, based on urban legend from his Grandfather who grew up near this area, but we didn’t find it. We got within 250 meters back then, LOL. I took several pictures of the castle site but many came out blurry. Here’s the best I have. This is part of the wall that surrounds the site, left was a wall built up with timber and rocks, the hilltop is mostly rock anyway. The gully would have been filled with sharpened crossed logs to slow down the enemy if they got over the first wall. It was a two walled defense system except 25% on one side was a cliff.
A cellar hole in the middle of the castle. Those pine trees are about 18” thick and the hole is very deep.
Here you can see the two ring walls surrounding the castle.
An exciting hunt but the finds were not great. Found several square nails, some with an attachment, an iron handle of sort, button from the early 1900s, seal of sort or harness décor and a lead ball with a wire through it. HH, Mike
And looking down, made me dizzy just standing there, LOL.
I got reoriented and remembered an old castle I had researched in the area but had never been there. Getting there was a challenge and I was able to drive within 500 meters before hiking up hill and hoping I was right. I was right and there was a marker close to the top. The archies did a dig here around 1897, they only found a few pieces of medieval clay pottery. The name of the castle is not known or who owned it and is originally suspected to be possible Celtic. It sure does look like a Celtic fortress the way it was built and I have seen several. It is close to a medieval travel route which was probably Celtic anyway. I did not find much there but it was exciting. A detector friend and I looked for this place almost 20 years ago, based on urban legend from his Grandfather who grew up near this area, but we didn’t find it. We got within 250 meters back then, LOL. I took several pictures of the castle site but many came out blurry. Here’s the best I have. This is part of the wall that surrounds the site, left was a wall built up with timber and rocks, the hilltop is mostly rock anyway. The gully would have been filled with sharpened crossed logs to slow down the enemy if they got over the first wall. It was a two walled defense system except 25% on one side was a cliff.
A cellar hole in the middle of the castle. Those pine trees are about 18” thick and the hole is very deep.
Here you can see the two ring walls surrounding the castle.
An exciting hunt but the finds were not great. Found several square nails, some with an attachment, an iron handle of sort, button from the early 1900s, seal of sort or harness décor and a lead ball with a wire through it. HH, Mike
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