It has now been 14 years that I am a very intensively seeker in my own region in Belgium and I have already been able to delete a lot from the bucket list ... finds with the naked eye from prehistoric times of first humans … Celtic from before the Romans … roman period centuries 1 to 4 … merovingian medieval … late Middle Ages with alternating occupation by French armies, by Dutch armies, by Austrian armies … often the English armies together with allied armies who always came to our aid against the French occupiers … and finally, Belgium was also about the epic center of WWI and WWII with a long German occupation …. you can find it all here …. and often you go to a specific area for research at a specific period, but you come home with something completely different from a completely different period because everything here in this small Belgian country took place in the same place …. here now i went to look at an old water mill that dates back to the 16th century but came home with something a few hundred years older …. my first really big gold coin (after some smaller ones in the past) … golden French ecu of the type " a la couronne = of the crown" struck under the French king Charles VI between 1385 and 1394 … diameter 28 mm and weight not so much = 3,8 gram
