Finds from a 1008-1250ish town site...

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’t.  Spent several hours at the site detecting.  The oldest finds were two shoe buckles dating to the 1200s.  As much time as I have around the site, I have always questioned the authenticity as to a small town having been here.  I really think another area close by was the original town that I have been detecting for years.  Here a few relics, a WWII button, two pieces of clay pipe, a small whatsit and a broken pewter buckle.



The early part of May 2008 I saw a group directly on the old town site so I stopped by to ask what was going on.  It was a group of Archies and students surveying the site with a magnetometer, they spent 4 days surveying.  Their final report stated they had found no evidence that a town ever stood here, no foundations or even corner stones from buildings.  Time to rewrite the history books, I have a sketch that shows the town layout as it supposedly was or was not, LOL.  Here are a few lead finds, musket ball with sprue, cut musket ball and a lead clothes seal.



Reverse of the lead clothes seal.



A few more relics, small finger ring possibly brass, a harness mount piece probably medieval, oil lamp base and a whatsit.



A few of the better coins, 1914, 1851, 1882, 1904, 1937 and 1924.



A harness tag with name Ioseph (Joseph) Ponnath, town and address, I altered it a little.  Also checked a consensus from 1860, a different name owned that house then so maybe this person married into the family or bought the house later in the 1800s to early 1900s.  This person also owned a local brewery that no longer brews beer but they still have a drink distribution where the brewery was.  The tag is probably made of brass.



I thought this was an interesting find, a bronze medieval keg tap from what I researched.  It is broken in half and the other side is cracked, the small part is from the other side.  This post was about the finds I had not posted from this site and not the site itself. HH, Mike

Hi Mike,

I fixed the picture-links, because they did not work.

Nice finds - thanks for sharing!

Best regards,
Guenter

nice finds, Mike. I like this Joseph Tag !

Hi Mike, a very nice haul of finds again. Keep on showing us more interesting finds!

nice finds and very nice Coins 


MFG Sherlok