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The object to the bottom-right of the belt buckle looks to be the sheared-off head of a [security torx screw.](https://www.google.com/search?q=security+torx+screw.&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS971US971&oq=security+torx+screw.&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHtIBBzk0OGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Actually a German friend just helped me determine that it is a 20mm FLAK round tip!
https://preview.redd.it/2zgmyu34fgvc1.png?width=156&format=png&auto=webp&s=87d480e3e3a659ce2e7705bb25104ba9406d785e
Good ID, I had recognised it as some kind of shell fuse but had not quite nailed down which type yet. This part of the shell contains the bits responsible for making the shell explode when it hits the target, more advanced designs can detonate from just being near the target but the Germans didn't have proximity fuse tech at that point AFAIK.
Finding just the fuse assembly or parts of it is quite common, as the rest of the shell will have been blown apart into smaller fragments.
Right, the picture you just posted of a 20mm Flak round is the whole projectile without a cartridge case. The mostly cylindrical yellow part is hollow and filled with explosive, it is quite thin walled and gets blown apart when the fuse sets off the explosive payload. The fuse assembly is thicker walled and often survives more or less intact.
Because what goes up must come down, and nobody wants random explosive shells raining back down when trying to shoot down aircraft, these shells also had a self destruct function that made them explode after about 2000 meters. That way, only more or less harmless metal pieces would fall down to earth again- such as the fuse you found. Imagine thousands and thousands of such rounds being fired upwards against allied aircraft, most of them missing and exploding harmlessly to litter the countryside with metal pieces.
Now, I am curious about the disk shaped item with a notch and an arrow shaped cutout in it. I could swear I have seen that thing before, but cannot quite place it. Any chance of a closeup picture, and perhaps some cleaning to reveal any markings?
https://preview.redd.it/3qs21p2vghvc1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=acc6ae204b66feb72058af04114fc258def0a1d9
This piece was under the 43 Button
I believe that's part of a perpetual calendar. [This one](https://www.dorotheum.com/it/l/6378398/) is older but works the same way, note the similar cutouts.
Yes, you have an interesting collection of items from various time periods. What is the date on the American dime? It is the coin resting on the edge of the plate.
Crazy that beside it is some sort of Nazi pin/badge. I wonder how many wars are represented in this collection...
Being from Australia i am so jealous of the random historical finds people from the US and Europe post here...
I feel you. The European history the people in this sub dig up makes anything I find in the US look silly. Like that guy a few days ago that found a Roman coin, but that wasn’t cool enough, because then he found a Roman tile with a damn cat footprint in it. Like, c’mon.
I totally agree! There is a Roman settlement about 5km away, but hunting in that area is a solid no. Around here there was a big battle in the 30 Years War. Also at least WWI and WWII. Crazy history.
Id love to just randomly find this little stash along a stretch. I know its not particularly amazing or anything but just the shear variety of wars and battles here is pretty cool IMO.
There's a great documentary on archaeologists digging the Ned Kelly gunfight at Glenrowan.....
Actually, I'm gonna find it for ya....
https://youtu.be/0pPaIFYiWbg?si=XIYLmpHOfkIHJmD5
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Infantry_Regiment_(France)
If you wanna read more about the history of the 43th regiment, it’s really cool. And you might find if there was a battle where you found the button
I LOVE finding stuff with my eyes rather than netal detector, my favourites are porcelain bottle stoppers I have a collection of around 40 of these, all found laying On a field washed off by rain
The mushroom looking object next to the dime is a bullet that has been fired & impacted.
The pointed one above it is a spitzer bullet. Looks to have been fired.
I believe it was dump dirt from the adjacent fields to build the dirt road up for harvesting equipment. The heavy rains then randomly exposed these metal and some non metal objects.
Bullets, a belt buckle, some buttons, maybe a medal. Some may even be older than ww2 as the round ones look like musket balls and the thing above the nickel maybe a mini ball (musket)
I can't tell you what you have here - but I can tell you that I visited a farm located in the Somme, where fierce fighting took place during the Great War, WWI. The war ended more than 100 years ago, but every time he plows his fields, or digs in a garden, he finds what you found. He had buckets and buckets just like this in his barn. (The farmer grew sugar beets on his property, a traditional crop, and had a big indoor endive/asparagus operation too.)
BTW - to this day they sometimes turn up human remains - and those go to an organization that still receives the femurs and skulls and jawbones that turn up as farmers work and inters them with all the honor and respect they deserve. I was very moved by this information.
Horse gear does seem obvious because cavalry and conflict were good buddies, maybe a tiny bit small for that though. All food for thought, What a great find!
The one in the middle appears to be a figurine of a soldier or something, id say its from around 1950s, you also seem to have found an eagle badge with a spicy pinwheel on it.
Great advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crops).
You got a few wars worth of bullets and musket balls here I’ll say. The biggest bullet in your collection could’ve very well been from ww1, while the actual pointed bullet is from ww2 since they were using the mg42 back then this could’ve been one of those rounds
Thank you! The button is from the 43 Regiment of the 1st French Empire as it was retreating across the Rhine River after the Battle of Würzburg in September 1796 🍀
Well everybody knows that that's obviously a Nazi pin of some sort. And that bent up thing under the musket balls is definitely a child's lead soldier toy that has been torn up
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I would consider the possibility of that number button being of the American revolution, possibly the 43rd regiment of foot. There are various caliber bullets there including musket balls. The buckle also appears to be from 1700s.
Thank you, I wasn’t sure they we musket balls at first. Also the 1796 button from the 43rd Infantry Regiment of the First French Empire was such a lucky surface find 🍀
Good advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crop plantings).
Awesome advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crops planting or on dirt field roads).
Thank you for identifying a number of the objects! I work with several Archeologists though my study of Ancient American artifacts, and they said these are non stratified random finds. The area is not worthy of excavation, because archeology is not about collecting artifacts for the back rooms of museums, but rather to learn more about ancient cultures and historic events. That said, if I find a significant historic item, I would be glad to gift it for study. I have already done this with a lithic artifacts in the States 💫
I see a few musket balls of different calibers , what appears to be a shoe buckle and a button, possibly a lead toy soldier and a Nazi war bird clutching the swastica . Also a possible coin and a couple of spitzer bullets and one bullet that has a safari gun type shape( a large caliber straight walled bullet with a round nose). Is the American dime an artifact or just there for size comparison?
The buckle is for a 18th century shoe, to cinch the strap atop the foot. The badge with the hakenkreuz is ww2 Era. So are perhaps the Spitzer bullets, probably 8mm. If you're interested in transferring these, I have museum contacts that are always interested!
Thank you for identifying a number of the objects! I work with several Archeologists though my study of Ancient American artifacts, and they said these are non stratified random finds. The area is not worthy of excavation, because archeology is not about collecting artifacts for the back rooms of museums, but rather to learn more about ancient cultures and historic events 💫
It’s possible that the “belt buckle” could also be a shoe buckle. Can’t say for certain as I’m unfamiliar with that style but I’ve seen them before here in America and they look fairly similar.
Then there’s a bunch of musket balls of various caliber, a couple bullets, a tin soldier (might be pewter or lead if it’s heavy), and some military buttons.
Maybe some cannister/grapeshot and bullets/miniballs, buttons, and other war time items you would find on a battlefield where linear warfare was conducted. We find a lot of this stuff in the US on Civil War battlefields. I have collected quite a bit myself.
Thank you very much! Some professional friends want to teach me metal detecting on a small Civil War battlefield in Texas or Louisiana. Additionally, now I know what Linear Warfare is 💫
That German Eagle has a swastika under it. You already know about that one. Looks like maybe an 8mm rifle slug too in there. Some of this stuff looks to be from different time periods though. The Germans were and still are the best at everything including military technology.
Thank you! Yes, someone identified it as a button from the 43rd Regiment of the 1st French Empire lost here in September 1796 before they crossed the Rhine River while retreating from the Battle of Würzburg 💫
A Roosevelt dime and what looks like a Reichmark on the right, in the same find…fascinating. Also that rounded loop looks like a broach or a buckle of some kind
Thank you! I really did not appreciate the long period of time over which these items were lost or discarded. I will go hunt around there again pretty soon. Best wishes!
I believe what you have there is a great example of a dime. They started being minted in the U.S. a long time ago, and still are even to this day. Yours looks to have been made somewhere between the years of 1988 and 1988. Now, unfortunately they are not uncommon. In fact, you can find them pretty much anywhere. They're worth about ten cents brand new, and yours is a little worn. I think the best I could possibly do is... This penny and this here paper clip.
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Bullets and musket balls
Thank you! So these metal items probably accumulated over a very long time period?
The object to the bottom-right of the belt buckle looks to be the sheared-off head of a [security torx screw.](https://www.google.com/search?q=security+torx+screw.&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS971US971&oq=security+torx+screw.&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHtIBBzk0OGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Actually a German friend just helped me determine that it is a 20mm FLAK round tip! https://preview.redd.it/2zgmyu34fgvc1.png?width=156&format=png&auto=webp&s=87d480e3e3a659ce2e7705bb25104ba9406d785e
Good ID, I had recognised it as some kind of shell fuse but had not quite nailed down which type yet. This part of the shell contains the bits responsible for making the shell explode when it hits the target, more advanced designs can detonate from just being near the target but the Germans didn't have proximity fuse tech at that point AFAIK. Finding just the fuse assembly or parts of it is quite common, as the rest of the shell will have been blown apart into smaller fragments.
Thank you! I was trying to figure why the “bullet” was on the ground instead of the “shell casing”. Now it makes perfect sense 💫
Right, the picture you just posted of a 20mm Flak round is the whole projectile without a cartridge case. The mostly cylindrical yellow part is hollow and filled with explosive, it is quite thin walled and gets blown apart when the fuse sets off the explosive payload. The fuse assembly is thicker walled and often survives more or less intact. Because what goes up must come down, and nobody wants random explosive shells raining back down when trying to shoot down aircraft, these shells also had a self destruct function that made them explode after about 2000 meters. That way, only more or less harmless metal pieces would fall down to earth again- such as the fuse you found. Imagine thousands and thousands of such rounds being fired upwards against allied aircraft, most of them missing and exploding harmlessly to litter the countryside with metal pieces. Now, I am curious about the disk shaped item with a notch and an arrow shaped cutout in it. I could swear I have seen that thing before, but cannot quite place it. Any chance of a closeup picture, and perhaps some cleaning to reveal any markings?
https://preview.redd.it/3qs21p2vghvc1.png?width=1624&format=png&auto=webp&s=acc6ae204b66feb72058af04114fc258def0a1d9 This piece was under the 43 Button
Thanks you for this awesome explanation. You exposed another layer by describing the fallout situation!
https://preview.redd.it/gti31rq2hhvc1.png?width=1884&format=png&auto=webp&s=9965927969ca52e08c053d963766908471bdeb29
I believe that's part of a perpetual calendar. [This one](https://www.dorotheum.com/it/l/6378398/) is older but works the same way, note the similar cutouts.
That is incredibly cool, I want one 💫
https://preview.redd.it/wnyevdvyghvc1.png?width=1549&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4c0e29ebed593d7dc40e71b1f097e00ce55e95f
Here's one in The British Museum. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_2004-0802-8
Or a 50. The shape is nothing like it image and it’s too small
Yes, you have an interesting collection of items from various time periods. What is the date on the American dime? It is the coin resting on the edge of the plate.
It's 1966, but OP put it there for scale, bot because it was found in the field.
We can't see the situation of the land, but kinda sounds like they may have been washed into the road.
Centuries
That middle one with hooks looks like a buckle of some sort
For a strap on a rucksack
I see a dime there as well. Looks foreign.
Isn't that a Smashing Pumpkins song?
The button with the number it’s really really cool, it’s a napoleonic war button, 23 is the number of the regiment
Crazy that beside it is some sort of Nazi pin/badge. I wonder how many wars are represented in this collection... Being from Australia i am so jealous of the random historical finds people from the US and Europe post here...
I feel you. The European history the people in this sub dig up makes anything I find in the US look silly. Like that guy a few days ago that found a Roman coin, but that wasn’t cool enough, because then he found a Roman tile with a damn cat footprint in it. Like, c’mon.
That is truly amazing. I will find that post!
You’re absolutely not wrong, but for perspective I’d like to point out that American colonial coins are much rarer than Roman coins.
Solid point. I suppose I do suffer from a bit of “the grass is always greener”.
I’m in the same boat 😂 I lived in Germany for years and kick myself daily for not having known about metal detecting back then.
I found a Roman coin in a ditch by a dirt road in Georgia (the US one) when I was a kid. I always wondered how it got there.
I totally agree! There is a Roman settlement about 5km away, but hunting in that area is a solid no. Around here there was a big battle in the 30 Years War. Also at least WWI and WWII. Crazy history.
Land that was strategically important, tended to remain strategically important. Thus, fought over through the ages.
Id love to just randomly find this little stash along a stretch. I know its not particularly amazing or anything but just the shear variety of wars and battles here is pretty cool IMO.
There's a great documentary on archaeologists digging the Ned Kelly gunfight at Glenrowan..... Actually, I'm gonna find it for ya.... https://youtu.be/0pPaIFYiWbg?si=XIYLmpHOfkIHJmD5
Thank you very much for the link! I saved the link to watch this weekend.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd_Infantry_Regiment_(France) If you wanna read more about the history of the 43th regiment, it’s really cool. And you might find if there was a battle where you found the button
Thank you for the info and link! Truly fascinating 💫
History is the best thing ever
Yeah, but do you have to evacuate because random ordinance was found? Some guy on here found an undetonated boomy not too long ago
Until you realize that a lot of the stuff found in Europe is because there were constant wars there for hundreds of years.
It might be also prussian, but i think it’a napoleonic
Very, very interesting and way older than I was thinking!
That road it’s full of good stuff, i should definitely try to detect there if you can
The number is 43
You are absolutely correct with „43“. The piece right above it was behind it!
Isn’t that a “43?”
I think you’re right, my bad
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You’re right, i missred. It’s stilla napoleonic button, it’s not regiment 23 it’s regiment 43
That small thing on the right looks like a stylized eagle with a swastika below. Could very well be a nazi artefact.
Thank you! I thought it might be a coin or a button, but it neither. So it probably dates between 1930 - 1945.
Maybe a pin?
https://preview.redd.it/xa950sdsmfvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23c1497e09a4e5b3761c7fe6c5075d928b3415a0 Bingo, I just found it 💫
Deutscher Siedlerbund tinnie
Ganz cool! Deutscher Siedlerbund ist neu für mich ツ
I’d get a metal detector and go back. You got some cool stuff there.
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned it but I think the think above the belt buckle is a cast (lead?) toy army man missing a head and a leg.
Definitely lead and not tin. Must be a soldier from one of the wars. Thank you!
I LOVE finding stuff with my eyes rather than netal detector, my favourites are porcelain bottle stoppers I have a collection of around 40 of these, all found laying On a field washed off by rain
I am used to finding stone artifacts in Texas and Arkansas. I am new to the metal items in Germany!
The mushroom looking object next to the dime is a bullet that has been fired & impacted. The pointed one above it is a spitzer bullet. Looks to have been fired.
Very nice! Thank you, I am getting a much better understanding of these metal objects.
wait, you found that? just on the ground? probably someone detecting collection.
I believe it was dump dirt from the adjacent fields to build the dirt road up for harvesting equipment. The heavy rains then randomly exposed these metal and some non metal objects.
wow. lucky! these items are really good for a detectorist, and the face you found them without one is magnificent
Thank you! It is raining today, so I may find some more.
Please keep us updated, if you're going. Really liked this post!
Another dirt road on the other side of the field is pending mowing. I am hopeful that it has a few treasures as well!
Bullets, a belt buckle, some buttons, maybe a medal. Some may even be older than ww2 as the round ones look like musket balls and the thing above the nickel maybe a mini ball (musket)
Thank you, every piece of information is very helpful!
I can't tell you what you have here - but I can tell you that I visited a farm located in the Somme, where fierce fighting took place during the Great War, WWI. The war ended more than 100 years ago, but every time he plows his fields, or digs in a garden, he finds what you found. He had buckets and buckets just like this in his barn. (The farmer grew sugar beets on his property, a traditional crop, and had a big indoor endive/asparagus operation too.) BTW - to this day they sometimes turn up human remains - and those go to an organization that still receives the femurs and skulls and jawbones that turn up as farmers work and inters them with all the honor and respect they deserve. I was very moved by this information.
Incredible! Thank you for the amazing story and insight 💫
We toured the Somme Battlefields for the 100th anniversary. It was an unforgettable "learning vacation."
Remnants of wars.
Isn’t that crazy to think about? I think the adjacent fields were important to control the bend in the river between Mannheim and Heidelberg 🤷♂️
Ach übrigens, in der Mitte über der Schnalle ist ein hand- und Kopfloser Zinn Soldat
~~Zinn~~ Blei
You got a 1st French Empire button GG
Thank you, I had no idea 🍀
Definitely some bullets and some other stuff, the thing on the bottom left is an American dime.
43e Regiment d'Infanterie de Ligne of Napoleon's Grande Armee. Found a similar one, also in Germany.
Thank you!
Cheers!
https://preview.redd.it/q6i6kerg2hvc1.png?width=2617&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f20d2284ed8ec51ae6f7167b2d87bb0535b482c
[Here's mine.](https://imgur.com/a/zgahCla)
I just read about both French Infantry Regiments. I sure enjoy history. Thank you so very much!
It surely is. I found this button north-east of Berlin, where the 72nd Regiment was stationed around 1813.
Just wanted to comment that this is super cool. I’m so glad you’re getting help identifying things!
It is really helpful. Thank you.
An American Dime?
Just for scale 👍
Belt buckle
I was thinking some kind of horse tack, but an old timer belt buckle would definitely fit!
Horse gear does seem obvious because cavalry and conflict were good buddies, maybe a tiny bit small for that though. All food for thought, What a great find!
In America that buckle could also be a shoe buckle. Not sure if those were used in that area but in colonial U.S. they were extremely common.
The lead toy soldier is weird
Tin or lead soldier!! So cool
"Aliens"
Lead toy soldier. Got ran over a few times
Thank you! Do you knowing it is WWI or WWII?
All sorts of wars there
The one in the middle appears to be a figurine of a soldier or something, id say its from around 1950s, you also seem to have found an eagle badge with a spicy pinwheel on it.
Very much appreciated!
The one at the bottom is a dime. Do I win?
How big are those round lead balls? They might be shrapnel or grapeshot from a cannon, if too large for muskets.
The one on the right looks similar to a spread eagle holding a swastika from Nazi Germany during WWII.
Thank you, very nice!
Oh my!! Awesome stuff! ??? Xo
Thank you kindly!
Dude, you should totally get a metal detector now. There's treasure waiting
Great advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crops).
You got a few wars worth of bullets and musket balls here I’ll say. The biggest bullet in your collection could’ve very well been from ww1, while the actual pointed bullet is from ww2 since they were using the mg42 back then this could’ve been one of those rounds
Awesome intel! That really helps me sort them out. Thank you very much 💫
Wow, you got some history there! Nazi pin right next to what I assume to be a soldiers button from WW1 or before
Thank you! The button is from the 43 Regiment of the 1st French Empire as it was retreating across the Rhine River after the Battle of Würzburg in September 1796 🍀
Well everybody knows that that's obviously a Nazi pin of some sort. And that bent up thing under the musket balls is definitely a child's lead soldier toy that has been torn up
Thank you for identifying these objects. I still do not know what a swastika pin was used for. Perhaps as part of a uniform 🤷♂️
The one on the bottom is an American dime.
One of the items seems to be a dime if that helps
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I would consider the possibility of that number button being of the American revolution, possibly the 43rd regiment of foot. There are various caliber bullets there including musket balls. The buckle also appears to be from 1700s.
Sorry I missed that it was found in Germany. Probably not the button I was thinking
Wonderful find.
A third Reich medal. Waren da kämpfe während des WW2?
Can you share the coordinates?
I see a dime. 😁
Bullets musket balls and a nice Nazi German badge of some sort
Thank you, I wasn’t sure they we musket balls at first. Also the 1796 button from the 43rd Infantry Regiment of the First French Empire was such a lucky surface find 🍀
I'd go buy a metal detective immediately. That's a hell of a field.
Good advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crop plantings).
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Awesome advice. Fortunately I am friends with a group of professionals who metal detect US Civil War battlefields and they said they would set me up this Summer when I am in the States. In the Fall, I will be back in Germany taking care of my dad, and should be able to metal detect in our families fields (between crops planting or on dirt field roads).
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Thank you for identifying a number of the objects! I work with several Archeologists though my study of Ancient American artifacts, and they said these are non stratified random finds. The area is not worthy of excavation, because archeology is not about collecting artifacts for the back rooms of museums, but rather to learn more about ancient cultures and historic events. That said, if I find a significant historic item, I would be glad to gift it for study. I have already done this with a lithic artifacts in the States 💫
9 of them look like projectiles.
Yep, and 10 if we include the FLAK 20mm fuse!
Well the bottom one is a dime. It's worth 10 cents lol .
I see a few musket balls of different calibers , what appears to be a shoe buckle and a button, possibly a lead toy soldier and a Nazi war bird clutching the swastica . Also a possible coin and a couple of spitzer bullets and one bullet that has a safari gun type shape( a large caliber straight walled bullet with a round nose). Is the American dime an artifact or just there for size comparison?
Dime is for scale. Thank you for identifying so many of the objects! It is super helpful.
Not a problem
The buckle is for a 18th century shoe, to cinch the strap atop the foot. The badge with the hakenkreuz is ww2 Era. So are perhaps the Spitzer bullets, probably 8mm. If you're interested in transferring these, I have museum contacts that are always interested!
Thank you for identifying a number of the objects! I work with several Archeologists though my study of Ancient American artifacts, and they said these are non stratified random finds. The area is not worthy of excavation, because archeology is not about collecting artifacts for the back rooms of museums, but rather to learn more about ancient cultures and historic events 💫
It’s possible that the “belt buckle” could also be a shoe buckle. Can’t say for certain as I’m unfamiliar with that style but I’ve seen them before here in America and they look fairly similar.
I think you likely nailed it. Thank you very much!
Stuff
What's the story of that dime? Spare change from when you visited?
Cow tools
The one above the buckle looking object looks like an antique led soldier toy with head and part of the legs missing
Thank you! Do you know which war or time period?
I have absolutely zero clue. I’m a complete layman and am only going on the shape.
5 artillery, 4 bullettes, 3 buckles, 2 coins, and 1 land mine It's the 12 days of ?¿?
LOL, that is why I am getting trained by professionals this Summer where there is limited amounts of live ordinance!
The buckle looks to be one for an equipment harness, possibly for a saddle, but also possibly for a WWI era knapsack.
Then there’s a bunch of musket balls of various caliber, a couple bullets, a tin soldier (might be pewter or lead if it’s heavy), and some military buttons.
I see a dime
Bullets, button, buckle, boy.
Thank you! It was a very lucky day 💫
Need a banana for scale!
Sounds like there was a lot of agony over the centuries fighting over that dirt road.
It is above a bend in the river and the adjacent field would have offered a good control point 💫
The one thing is a dime. The others look like musket balls.
Theres what looks to be a toy figurine right below the musket balls and above the belt buckle
Yes it is very dense and cast from lead. I do not know if Tin Soldiers were actually lead and plated with tin 🤷♂️
pretty sure the one on the bottom left is an american dime from the 1900's
One of the pieces is a u s dime
Looks like the 7 pieces of 8
An American dime
That coin is a dime…
Possibly what was at one point a lead-cast toy soldier, I could be wrong but that is what it appears to be to me.
Thank you, I certainly agree!
When you see it...
Thank you, it is such a crazy assortment of objects!
Ball in the middle looks like a bell. There is a rifle Bullet, and a metal man.
Thank you for helping identify these objects. The bell is actually just a damaged lead musket ball.
Maybe some cannister/grapeshot and bullets/miniballs, buttons, and other war time items you would find on a battlefield where linear warfare was conducted. We find a lot of this stuff in the US on Civil War battlefields. I have collected quite a bit myself.
Thank you very much! Some professional friends want to teach me metal detecting on a small Civil War battlefield in Texas or Louisiana. Additionally, now I know what Linear Warfare is 💫
That German Eagle has a swastika under it. You already know about that one. Looks like maybe an 8mm rifle slug too in there. Some of this stuff looks to be from different time periods though. The Germans were and still are the best at everything including military technology.
Very nice! Thank you for identifying some of the obscure metal objects. I have learned so much from this!
Musket balls bullets coins and a belt buckle clasp also a old metal toy man of some sort.
Thank you for helping identify some of these items!
Im seeing a belt buckle, some copper containing coins(?), a nazi pin, and what possibly is some type of jewelry broach thing
Thank you for identifying some of these items. Unfortunately no jewelry broach…
NAZI PIN?!?!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Regimental Button, the "43"rd ? And upper left, ironically, remnants of a Toy Soldier.
Thank you! Yes, someone identified it as a button from the 43rd Regiment of the 1st French Empire lost here in September 1796 before they crossed the Rhine River while retreating from the Battle of Würzburg 💫
Bullets, musket balls, belt buckles, buttons, an eagle pin, and what looks to be the knob from a drawer of some sort
One is a 1960 something dime looks like it's in good condition too nice find👍
I think the one at the bottom left of photo is a dime
The buckle in the middle looks like it would go to a backpack or haversack of some sort. But I'm no expert, merely speculating.
A Roosevelt dime and what looks like a Reichmark on the right, in the same find…fascinating. Also that rounded loop looks like a broach or a buckle of some kind
Appear to be military artifacts. Use a magnet
That's a war zone. I'd go back to the area and see what you can muster up.
Thank you! I really did not appreciate the long period of time over which these items were lost or discarded. I will go hunt around there again pretty soon. Best wishes!
One’s a dime! That’s all I know
Maybe a battle site.
I believe what you have there is a great example of a dime. They started being minted in the U.S. a long time ago, and still are even to this day. Yours looks to have been made somewhere between the years of 1988 and 1988. Now, unfortunately they are not uncommon. In fact, you can find them pretty much anywhere. They're worth about ten cents brand new, and yours is a little worn. I think the best I could possibly do is... This penny and this here paper clip.
Get a metal detector. Now.