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My first Seal Stamp

I had been dragging myself over some new field. It was raining a bit and I didn’t find much between the rows of corn stubble so at the end, when I am almost turning off my detector, I decide to dig up one last high ID target. And it came out, looking like a solid heavy closet knob.. I put it away, walk to the car, then I have an idea and take it back out of my finds pouch. I wipe it with some water and there it is: a seal stamp !!

The handle was broken but it’s a fine old 14th century seal stamp (about-ish- we never know for sure). It says :

S’ ( igillum ) = seal “ Colart dou Canne ” is old French for “ Colart de Canne ” ( = the village Kanne near Riemst)

There’s a whole page with stamps found in Flanders

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Montenegro in Winter

We were planning maybe to go on a road trip for several weeks to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro and maybe Albania/Kosovo.. But the only free space was March and what happened: WINTER !! Snow, freezing, rain, snow.. NOT WHAT I EXPECTED !!

Happy i got the snow tires because I didn’t slip once and there’s a lot of curves on the Bosnian roads !! But we suvived the snow in Bosnia. Happy i have seen it with snow. So many forests.. there should be so much to find there but now was not a good time. We didn’t get to Albania/Kosovo because it would cost us and it’s all cold and rainy and really still nothing to do.

Strange, there was nothing to find on all beaches in Montenegro, except 1 spot of a few squares metres in front of a bar. It was literally loaded. Even dug this cross, from a grave or so, so i left it there. Maybe others couldn’t detect here because of electric wires but i didn’t notice anything with my detector. Really strange.. I detected in Winter (Oct/Nov) before and that was quite ok. Then end of August was crappy while the tourists were still there and beaches were undisturbed. Can’t really make anything out of it.