Detected a castle, toured a Roman coliseum and found a silver coin...

[Bavaria Mike]

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This is where the town

 

[NH Bob]

Congrats on the US silver Mike. I know how hard it is to find it over there. Great post as usual Mike.
HH

 

[RonNH]

That is quite an adventure, Mike. And ironic that in another country you would find a Washington quarter, and a nice one at that...the first year for silver. Thanks for the story. Ron

 

[B.T]

Great Pictures Mike. I love seeing where others overseas go detecting.
I used to get a magazine over here from the US but cant remeber its name. Maybe North east treasure or something like that.
Tell me please, which is the best mag over there for you guys as I would love to get a few copies sent over, naturally Ill pay, to have a read?

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I am American from Ohio in Germany and receive "Western and Eastern Treasure Magazine" from the USA at my German address. HH and thanks, Mike

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great to have found last year American silver! I found it on an old WWII German military post that was taken over by the Americans just after WWII and has been American ever since. HH, Mike

 

[Bavaria Mike]

n/t

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

I enjoyed your post Mike. You have some great old sites to hunt, even if you have to jump through a few hoops to do it.
I've got to agree with you on the year of the silver quarter. It is also the year I was born. Nice find.
It's always good to see different parts of the world that folks detect in and the different potential of each place.
Mick Evans.

 

[B.T]

Thanks Mike. I knew it was somewhere on the compass dial