Lots of trash, a Rifle and a shot Jesus Statue...

Westfront · Oct 17, 2021

One more sunday hunt near a roman villa site. The field has a slope down to a small creek with a wooded bank. We detected our rows with little success, loads of trash with very little roman stuff. I was thinking the roman path was going down to the creek lead us to the wooded bank, hoping to find some lost stuff and it worked not as expected. Just under the leafes with a strong iron signal was some rund bar sticking out at an angle. It wouldn't come out easily... Must been because the other end in the ground was bigger... Out came an old rifle. :dontknow:

The trash

Buttons, buckle bits, gold gilded whatsit, crucifix with complete wood insert.

Roman finds

More rifle pics

And another picture made at a graveyard on the way. This statue was badly damaged during the heavy fighting in fall/winter 1944

Thanks for looking!

oldmxrat · Oct 17, 2021

Very nice hunt, congrats!

Digger RJ · Oct 17, 2021

Westfront said:
One more sunday hunt near a roman villa site. The field has a slope down to a small creek with a wooded bank. We detected our rows with little success, loads of trash with very little roman stuff. I was thinking the roman path was going down to the creek lead us to the wooded bank, hoping to find some lost stuff and it worked not as expected. Just under the leafes with a strong iron signal was some rund bar sticking out at an angle. It wouldn't come out easily... Must been because the other end in the ground was bigger... Out came an old rifle.
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The trash
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Buttons, buckle bits, gold gilded whatsit, crucifix with complete wood insert.
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More rifle pics
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And another picture made at a graveyard on the way. This statue was badly damaged during the heavy fighting in fall/winter 1944
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Thanks for looking!

Very Cool!!! Congrats!!!