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My name is Micheal Koopman, I am a student, thirteen years old, a month ago, my father and I bought a Tracker ID and a Tracker IV from the Bounty Hunter corp. Of course at Steenbergen Detectors Hulst...

After a few times hunting our backyard, I had the chance to acompany my neighbour, to a, he said, toplocation to search. The place we went was realy in the middle of nowhere, I thought:" No way we are going to find anything here." I was told there was a house or farm at the place, early 1600 A.D. My neighbour and his friend gave me some different hints and tips: how to search, to move the coil properly above the ground, and how to addapt the detector to the ground conditions. They also showed me where the building actualy had been.

Only just started of searching the field, the others already did some digging, they discovered coins and small artefacts, the oldest thing found was a counter coin from the year 1575. After a while I also heard something from my Tracker, a good sounding signal, I began digging, and yes, my first coin was above ground, it was a 2 centime, 1835, from Belgium, in a fairly good condition. I was of course very happy with my first find. After this one, I did dig up another coin with the Bounty Hunter, it was a Dutch cupper coin, a Duit, Zelandia, from the year 1789, you could still read the text and yearmark.

Not to long after finding the Duit, the detector gave a very loud signal, I began digging, and discovered a strange looking object, I figured it was some broken part from a ancient clock, because of it's cog- wheel shape at the top. I walked to my neighbour, to show him the strange item, he looked very surprised me bringing this, and he shouted to his friend to come and look. " I am not going to adjust Michael's detector anymore" he said " The boy already is a better searcher than both of us, here have a look: " I didn't understand what they where talking about, what I had found to me realy was a broken clock part-thing.

The neighbour laughed about my determination, it was no part from the interior of a clock at all, but a very uncommon artefact, a sun-moon -star symbol, dated early 1600, people don't now much about it anymore, only the fact it's modeled to Roman mysterious religion, and only in use, in the Low Countries, for a small period of time. Some person think it's a metal patch or insignia, used on leather belts to keep horses on lead. But my neighbour sais that's not the truth about it, later, he did show me some insignia for this purpose, crosses and hearts, they all had pointed hooks at the back to adapt it to the leather. The Lunilea has no trace of any form of this kind of attachment. It has to be attached through the pierced hole on the top, a far to weak connection on to the horses belt. It would break very easy.

Below you can see how the Lunilea looked, the piece I have found is not totaly complete, the star is missing, it's computer reconstructed to give you the original idea.

You can imagine I was very happy with this successful day, in the future, I hope to discover many more of these rare things, with my BOUNTY HUNTER, it has payed of very well so far, not that I am going to sell my finds, but Steenbergen Detectors Hulst has told me, concidered the fact Lunileas are not to much recovered from the ground, I could make some money out of it from a collector.

Neighbour, Carlo en Marc Steenbergen, thanks for the help you offered me, till next time?

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