Bavaria Mike
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A few hunts and finds from a town site built in 1008-1250 AD, the town moved about 500 meters around 1250 and walled the city with a moat around it. The site is just farm fields now. I had originally requested this site on my detecting permit but was denied due to historical significance. So for years I have been driving by it and detecting near it and always wondered what could come up here, I even had permission from all the land owners but the Archies said no. At our Historical Society meeting last March 2008, I was able to talk to the town mayor and his right hand man. I explained that others were detecting the area, I even had a back up witness, our museum curator, tell them he saw the other detectors. I was given permission to detect as long as I showed all the finds to one of our top Historical Society members and I also agreed to give the museum any finds if they wanted them, and they didn