Metal Detecting Cultural Settlement Bezradichi (Story 1)
...The hilltop did not yield any signals, so, not to waste any more time, we drove back to the settlement site. I decided to search the steep slopes this time. We camped in the empty water basin and I began searching its bottom while walking to the further slopes.
Local youths appeared on the near road to see what I was doing.
I climbed half the height of the slope and started metal detecting - it turned out to be a tough job to do!
The heat and mosquitos were killing me. Without a proper leverage, my digging looked like testing a shovel while being drunk - totally idiotic and embarassing! But I managed to get a few signals.
A Soviet coin, 1949 10 Kopeks
Silver Shoe Buckle
Then I got a few more: a pewter spoon and fork fragments, another Soviet coin from the 1970s, and a harness badge of asian type, possibly belonging to the period of Mongol invasion. And I also noticed many old holes made by other metaldetectorists. At that moment I was completely exhausted and felt like "closing the chapter" on this site.
All My Finds
Medieval Relics
Overall, metal detecting at the site of the medieval cultural settlement was enjoyable: I gained some new practical experiences, got familiar with new signals, and dug up a few interesting relics, the oldest I had ever found!... Oh, well, little I knew what was ahead of me...
Flowers of Buckwheat
Happy Hunting!
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