Medieval and post medieval finds from the beer token field...

Spent several hours this past week hunting the beer token field.  I call it the beer token field as it has given up so many beer tokens, 30ish tokens.  It has also produced a few medieval finds, two nice seal matrixes, several coins and the first gold to come from my area found by my Alaskan friend George in the form of a modern 8K/333 gold ring and several other interesting relics.  There has only been three gold finds in my area, 2 modern rings found by my friends and my gold coin of 400 years old found just to the left of this field where a farm once stood.  I now understand why there is so little gold found here, peasants or poor people were not allowed to own gold in medieval times.  Here is the beer token field, it has just been planted a few days ago and I was able to enjoy one last hunt.

Combined finds from the beer token field.  Three beer tokens, two are actually bottle deposit tokens, one is broken and I found another broken token last week.  I wonder if I could get a beer at the October fest that is going on with a token that says “good for 1 liter beer”, LOL?

Two buttons, left is French (late 1700s?) and right is German Prussian (late 1800s).

A few lead pieces.  Two musket balls and a whatsit.  Three lead seals, far right appears to be older with a building type image on it.

Found a small hand full of late 1800s to early 1900s coins, here are the oldest coins, an 1800 worn out Austrian and an 1851 half kreuzer.

A small coockerel keg tap valve dating to the 1600s or around there.  I have found several of them but do not know why I can not find the actual tap. I do have a few taps in bad condition from other sizes.

The medieval find, a bronze thimble.  Smallish, thick, heavy, uneven and inconsistent indents.  The hole on top is questionable, may have been put there intentionally to allow air into it to avoid sweating.  HH, Mike 

Hey Mike

Some cool finds there
I really like the thimble and ist in good condition to.
Con you send me a PN sometime and explain how you do that with the Pics and text?

Gruß Jeff..

Hallo Mike,

meine Gratulation zu den schönen Funden

Gruß Feldbegeher

Nice finds Mike, beer tokens I get here too, but mostly in Aluminium, so much more modern.
Glad your getting some matrix seals (Petschafts) too.

Grüß dich,
dein Fingerhut passt ins 15.-16.Jhd.

Danke alle und vielen dank Merowech!  Jeff, I will look for the instructions and send them to you, they are buried in an email or on the hard drive somewhere.  I tried to send you my text setup from the recent post but it comes out like my post with pictures.  Basically, just put a return at the end of the picture or before the picture and start typing.    MFG, Mike

Das Fingerhutmuseum in Creglingen
Das Fingerhutmuseum ist das bisher weltweit einzige Spezialmuseum dieser Art. Es befindet sich 1 km außerhalb von Creglingen, direkt an der Romantischen Straße, zwischen Bad Mergentheim und Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Öffnungszeiten des Museums:

1. April - 31. Oktober
Dienstag bis Sonntag: 10.00 – 12.30 + 14.00 – 17.00 Uhr

1. November – 31. März
Dienstag bis Sonntag: 13.00 – 16.00 Uhr

geschlossen: 24. / 25. / 31. Dezember und 7. Januar bis 28. Februar

Gruppen ab 10 Personen haben nach vorheriger Anmeldung auch außerhalb dieser Öffnungszeiten Zutritt zum Museum.
Für Gruppen bieten wir in deutscher Sprache eine kleine Einführung über die Geschichte des Fingerhutes an. Sie verschafft kurzweilig tiefe Einblicke von der Zeit des Neandertalers bis Heute.
Sie haben nicht die Berechtigung Links zu sehen.
Registrieren oder Einlogen