lemanlures
Junior Member
Well yesterday morning, found myself up nice and early and thought i would spend a few hours on one of our local ski pistes (that i have been on many times before) as all my fields are currently in crop or recently seeded.. and i need my detecting fix..
So with no expectations whatsoever and the vague hope that i may find one or two modern silvers or a ring..off i went..
One of my first targets was a 1867 10 Centivos from Italy .. which i was well chuffed with as its one of the oldest things i have found up on the pistes.. until 3O minutes later when i found myself sitting in the wet grass staring at what i can only identify a mid/late bronze age axe head... approximately 4000 years old!
The At pro, rang a strong solid 69-72 and was telling me that there was coin 5 cm deep, after digging about 15/20 CMs i was about to give up but my pointer was beeping away at the bottom of the hole so i thought to myself well let me dig this piece of copper pipping or trash out the ground so i don't try and dig it again.. and then i saw the corner of a very green object!
I found this yesterday afternoon and i am still shaking! Yes it will be handed in to the archeological services and yes Swiss law sucks but hey at least i get to hold it and stare at for a while!!
Now added three new photos of the painstakingly cleaned axe head, no water was used only a tooth pick and very soft tooth brush!
So with no expectations whatsoever and the vague hope that i may find one or two modern silvers or a ring..off i went..
One of my first targets was a 1867 10 Centivos from Italy .. which i was well chuffed with as its one of the oldest things i have found up on the pistes.. until 3O minutes later when i found myself sitting in the wet grass staring at what i can only identify a mid/late bronze age axe head... approximately 4000 years old!
The At pro, rang a strong solid 69-72 and was telling me that there was coin 5 cm deep, after digging about 15/20 CMs i was about to give up but my pointer was beeping away at the bottom of the hole so i thought to myself well let me dig this piece of copper pipping or trash out the ground so i don't try and dig it again.. and then i saw the corner of a very green object!
I found this yesterday afternoon and i am still shaking! Yes it will be handed in to the archeological services and yes Swiss law sucks but hey at least i get to hold it and stare at for a while!!
Now added three new photos of the painstakingly cleaned axe head, no water was used only a tooth pick and very soft tooth brush!
Awesome find glad you dug that hole deep and didn't give up. This should have way more replies it is an incredible find... 
, but when you find something of this age and archeological significance even i don't believe its place is in my collection but believe it should be displayed for everyone to see and studied by professionals.. now if someone were to offer me 2000$ cash for it right now I might change my tune
