Bavaria Mike
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- Feb 7, 2005
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- Location
- Bavaria Germany
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab XT70, Fisher 1280, Garrett Ace 250 and MH5
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
The castle Frauenburg near Idar-Oberstein has been on my list for over two years. I have researched it, toured it, explored it and finally Saturday I detected it. Only the legal parts which is not much. That was the stream bed. The castle was built around 1330 AD and had a town at the base of the castle along the stream that was destroyed by a flash flood around the 1760s, totally devastated.
This is the area I detected, there are two streams that meet at this point and I detected my way up the stream. There are no signs of the old town that I could find after several trips here over the past two years. Took the picture from a very high bridge that passes by the castle, those streams are a long way down.
Detecting, strafing and traversing my way up the stream bed, I am about to enter the area in the picture above where the two streams meet. Behind me are the remnants of an old bridge, several huge blocks of stone and concrete, there is tons of iron here.
After a good two hours, these are my finds. The top of a smoke grenade, three brass ammo casings, a chunk of metal and what looks like a flare cap. I moved on to the bottom of the stream that meets another much larger stream and where the town would have been flooded into.
This is where the town’s debris would have ended up after the flood. Actually, with such a flood, the fields around the stream are probably loaded with targets however, I can not detect the pastures that surround the stream so I detected the banks. Besides junk, I only found half of a clay pipe bowl that was my best find from this hunt.
Sunday afternoon I drove to nearby Trier to tour a Roman Coliseum built around 100 AD. Capacity of the coliseum was around 25,000. The imagination runs wild at a place like this. There is also a cellar under the coliseum floor with artesian wells, apparently, the coliseum could have be flooded for different shows other than Gladiators and criminals fighting each other, lions, tigers and bears, oh my! There were no Roman coins or relics lying around. Those walls are a good 12’ high, the only way out was to kill or be killed.
Since most of the fields are planted, I have been detecting around the WWII posts in the area where I work. This is a small park where I have found four silver American coins and a few Wheat cents. It has kept me busy detecting for several hours lately and I found my fourth silver coin yesterday.
My best find from the past week, a 1964 silver American Quarter. What a great year, the year I was born! I got a nice signal, scraped the leaves away with my foot and there it was, did not have the privilege of digging it but did use the shovel to pop it out of the dirt, LOL! Awesome detecting this week but the 1964 gets the best find. Thanks for looking and HH, Mike
This is the area I detected, there are two streams that meet at this point and I detected my way up the stream. There are no signs of the old town that I could find after several trips here over the past two years. Took the picture from a very high bridge that passes by the castle, those streams are a long way down.
Detecting, strafing and traversing my way up the stream bed, I am about to enter the area in the picture above where the two streams meet. Behind me are the remnants of an old bridge, several huge blocks of stone and concrete, there is tons of iron here.
After a good two hours, these are my finds. The top of a smoke grenade, three brass ammo casings, a chunk of metal and what looks like a flare cap. I moved on to the bottom of the stream that meets another much larger stream and where the town would have been flooded into.
This is where the town’s debris would have ended up after the flood. Actually, with such a flood, the fields around the stream are probably loaded with targets however, I can not detect the pastures that surround the stream so I detected the banks. Besides junk, I only found half of a clay pipe bowl that was my best find from this hunt.
Sunday afternoon I drove to nearby Trier to tour a Roman Coliseum built around 100 AD. Capacity of the coliseum was around 25,000. The imagination runs wild at a place like this. There is also a cellar under the coliseum floor with artesian wells, apparently, the coliseum could have be flooded for different shows other than Gladiators and criminals fighting each other, lions, tigers and bears, oh my! There were no Roman coins or relics lying around. Those walls are a good 12’ high, the only way out was to kill or be killed.
Since most of the fields are planted, I have been detecting around the WWII posts in the area where I work. This is a small park where I have found four silver American coins and a few Wheat cents. It has kept me busy detecting for several hours lately and I found my fourth silver coin yesterday.
My best find from the past week, a 1964 silver American Quarter. What a great year, the year I was born! I got a nice signal, scraped the leaves away with my foot and there it was, did not have the privilege of digging it but did use the shovel to pop it out of the dirt, LOL! Awesome detecting this week but the 1964 gets the best find. Thanks for looking and HH, Mike
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