Castles, bomb and beautiful weather...

[Bavaria Mike]

A beautiful and crazy day. At work they are installing a new water line around our office, today they found an artillery round about 4 meters from my desk while digging. The round is German from WWI to WWII, I was informed that our office was built over a training artillery firing point from the early 1900s. They evacuated us at 10:30 AM, go home with pay, LOL, so I went detecting with all that free time and a beautiful day. Went to a castle built in 1107 that had a town built around it. This post has my last three hunts and finds included. A picture of another castle, to the right of the church steeple, also built in 1107, I detected the loose plowed field at the bottom. Found two coins, a square copper coin from 1786 and a round copper from 1826, no picture as they are sitting on my desk at work.
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This castle was also built in 1107, a town of about 50 houses lined the base of the castle, every dip in the terrain was a house in the picture. Luckily, someone has installed those four legged lawn mowers, sheep and goats, they are moving the sheep across the old homestead foundations so I detected the steep foundations on the right, the grass is only about 4

 

[7centsworth]

Nice pictures. Looks like you have a good place to hunt. You had a good hunt for sure.

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the very nice finds! Enjoyed the story and pictures, Beale.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It looks like history gave you a detecting break Mike. Cool!
i love to watch the Tour De France each year through the wee small hours of the morning, loving seeing all lovely old castles and thinking how good it would be to put a coil over them. You get to do it, lucky ducky duck.
Mick Evans.