What can be found in the knocked-out place. "Winter belongs to robbers"

The season is in full swing, which means it's time to post a little motivation for lazy pink butts. Yes, guys, it's time to get up from behind the sofa and go digging, while you're sitting here - someone is picking up your finds! However, there is a certain category of diggers who do not dig for war for one reason or another, but with these photos we will say hello to those diggers whose legs shake at the sight of a GP, and who will never find such finds. Let's go!

Weapon

One of the most common finds at combat sites is weapons. It climbs in poorly preserved soil, and in more or less good water bodies - lakes, rivers, swamps. Let’s not forget that previously they could simply collect weapons from the fields that were lying on the surface and throw them into a pond. You can get it with a search magnet or an underwater search device (turn off the discriminant; working with discriminant underwater is a sign of a beginner).

For example, Mosin rifles in excellent condition (can be converted for MMG) and German grenades in the original box are also excellent preparations for MMG.

And this photo is more from the distant 80s and 90s. Then there were no special instruments, except for the once military ones and those units that were brought “from over the hill.” Beautiful samples of a mortar and two PPDs are simply pleasing to the eye!

In general, the PPSh is in good condition, definitely beautiful and interesting!

It happens that a trunk grows into a tree, I once saw a German Mauser 98K carbine in a felled tree, and here we have another handsome PPSh!

Since two sides took part in the war, German small arms are also found everywhere with Soviet small arms, but less frequently. And in good preservation, they are absolutely rarities! Beautiful MMGs that can cost thousands and thousands of euros (still walking through fields looking for gold coins?).

Awards

The second category of finds that you want to find are rewards. They rarely lie separately in the ground, although cases do occur; most often they are found together with the owners, which is sad - some careless colleagues (who don’t even bury holes) can take the award and leave the fighter, which makes it impossible to identify the fighter and find out his name, pass it on to family and so on. It’s okay, karma exists in the world and such people will receive it. But, nevertheless, rewards are rare, but come across on the surface or while digging in the dugout/cell.

Most likely a post-war loss, judging by the medal.

Broken personal badge of a Wehrmacht soldier and signs for wounds. Amusing 1 USSR ruble, anniversary. Did you pick it up from the same pancake, or what?)

Digging for “Edelweiss” is always pleasant and fun!
Luftwaffe Paratrooper Badge. It’s an excellent find and is well preserved, but if it still has a bolt on the other side, then such a find is worthless!

Rings

Another category of finds that I personally like. Souvenir rings, alas, for the most part, are also included with the owner. If there are initials or any other information, they will help identify the fighter and there will be one less “nameless” in this world!

For example, one comrade has an interesting collection, it’s beautifully packaged and looks gorgeous!

Helmets

Helmets, also known as “caps,” are a fairly common find at military base sites. Many experienced comrades, if the cason is not of interest, leave it right at the place of discovery or hang it on the nearest tree (bough) or bush. Subsequently, it is picked up and carried away by less fortunate and experienced diggers, I don’t know why, but “so that it stays on the shelf.” Many of us have metal waste disease, don’t you agree? 🙂

This is how they hang in the forest. Often, a helmet marks the location of the cop (for example, the height for which the battle was fought); in the thicket of the forest, such landmarks help. Here we see a Soviet helmet and next to it an ordinary bowler hat.

Probably one of those finds that I will not find is the helmet of a Luftwaffe paratrooper. Great find in the area where these guys hang out.

The consequences of the pit - helmets came out, and with them a grenade.

As I wrote above, not only weapons or GPs were thrown into reservoirs, but also helmets. Don't be lazy to look under the water. 😉

How can a German “cap” be valuable? Three factors: preservation, decals and original color. As you can see, it was definitely not the digger who painted this helmet in white camouflage color!

Shells and GPs

Do you think that once you come to the battle site, the finds will come out by themselves? Alas, no, most often you will find different shells, grenades and VOPs. You might even come across a 500 kg aerial bomb - things happen in life, but the digger never knows what lies under the coil and gives off a good colored signal. :)))) I ask those who are especially vigilant to leave the screen or switch to another post on my portal, of which there are many - very interesting and useful!

It all starts with very harmless cartridges - in packs, single, lost, and so on. Loading up a bag of ammo is common for an hour in most of these places.

Then there are more dangerous things, these are mortar shells, for example. Who knows why this mine did not explode? Can you determine whether the mine was fired (passed through the mortar barrel) or whether someone in the crew forgot/lost it in the heat of battle? Don't forget about the particularly dangerous detonator on many mortar mines.

Shells. There are a variety of them - howitzer, anti-tank and from a large number of artillery pieces that rumbled and shook the ground around during the war. Artillery preparation during an offensive could last for hours - which means a certain percentage of shells will go into the ground and not explode. And your metal detector will then return such a find with a good signal.

It’s better not to joke with such things and call professionals. Leave it in the forest and endanger mushroom pickers, hunters and random people.

Those who need it know how to handle such things. It is strictly not recommended to climb and deal with this yourself.

A short summary

Have you reached the end? Thank you for your interest and patience! 🙂

A war cop is both dangerous and interesting. Everyone does this for their own motives and reasons, but in the end I would like to urge everyone to simply follow simple rules:

honor and respect for the fallen - everyone must return from the war, even after many decades
We don’t scatter various finds and don’t bury shells under the intended site of a fire - we respect everyone who comes to the forest/swamp, or anywhere
We don’t play around with GPs and may we have the long happiness of seeing our grandchildren and great-grandchildren 😉

And for those who follow the most minimal rules of a cop in war - these are such finds and in such quantities!

No worries, everyone!

P.S. All photos are from the Internet, “the moped is not mine.”

What, did you like it? We have collected all the evidence from the war, and cool finds can be found! Come in, look, study, oh young digger!

MOSCOW, September 13 – RIA Novosti, Irina Khaletskaya. In early September, a group of archaeologists discovered a mass grave of Soviet soldiers near Rzhev. It was difficult to collect everything: before the researchers, unknown people visited here, plundered the grave, and threw the remains of the soldiers into a ravine.

Among the black diggers there are both fanatics and trophy looters. One of them spoke to RIA Novosti on condition of anonymity about how much the so-called coparis earn, why museums don’t want to deal with them, and how the market for “grave” antiques is divided.

About marauders and fanatics

We can be divided into three types. The first - “seekers” - want to be discoverers, to find objects that no one has held in their hands for a hundred, five hundred, or even a thousand years. They keep the finds for themselves or sell them as unnecessary. But they are driven by a passion for history. When the activities of diggers were not regulated by law, these people shared their finds with archaeologists. Many official catalogs with such artifacts have been published.

The second ones are “kopari”. They are looking for sale, determining the value of an item primarily by cost. They do not contact museums; they are not interested. Search for them is additional income, a hobby comparable to fishing. They do not touch the remains; they pass information about the burials to search engines.

The third type is “poachers,” I’ll call them that. Terry businessmen, real black diggers, living only by searching. Some specialize in antiques (ancient crosses, pagan jewelry, coins), others sell military relics. If “poachers” find remains, they usually rebury them themselves without noise or publicity. Of course, there are scumbags for whom nothing is sacred, they roll dice.

About the "roof" of the diggers

The country can be roughly divided into search zones. In the taiga, you can only dig in river basins and near lakes where there were settlements. There are few finds there, because there is nowhere to turn around. The oldest is bronze jewelry that is about a thousand years old.

There is an average Russia. This is a zone of appanage principalities, which means there will be rare coins of that period - jewelry, icons, Arab and Norman things. Many people lived here, agriculture developed, trade routes led here, and constant wars took place here. There is a place for the business of "poachers".

The south of the country is a special place - it is a cauldron of civilizations. “Everything is under control” there: there are groups that control the antiques market, their own “roof”, which has a share. No one will prove anything: law enforcement agencies catch searchers with a coin in their pocket, and the southern “bonzes” still dig mounds with excavators. Antique stores in the South continue to sell archaeological items. In Sochi, for example, there is a shop where they sell Alan and Scythian copper jewelry.

There is a lot of gold here, and it has a special value in jewelry. Much goes abroad; Scythian and Greek gold is in demand. But if the seller does not have access to reputable collectors, then he will sell a find, for example a small plaque, for five thousand rubles, no more.

Finds are freely sold on the Internet, this is not a problem. There are auctions for antiquities, and forums for finds from the battlefield. Anyone who fears for safety goes to the darknet.

About antiques and "church daub"

Buying valuables is the craft of antique dealers; they do not dig themselves. Some antiquarians, in their jargon, call icons, for example, “daubs” - this well illustrates their “shape of morality.”

Icons used to be covered with new layers of paint on top of the old. The specialist’s task is to reveal the layers and expose the original painting. They work with chemicals, so there is a risk that nothing will remain under the layer. Not long ago they sold an icon with an ark (a recess in a board) from the 19th century. They risked revealing the painting and reached the 4th century.

Initially it was sold for 200 thousand rubles, then resold for a million, and later it reached 15 million rubles. It was a rare artifact from Mongol times. But if the first owner had tried to immediately sell him for at least a million, he would no longer be alive: greed would have killed him.

But he didn’t want to trade at the auction, because there was a large commission.

A similar case occurred with the golden box of Catherine II, which a digger found near an estate on the banks of the Volga. Signature box! I also sold it for a stupid price because unknown people forced me and intimidated me. In the end, it reached one influential official, and he donated it either to the Hermitage or to the Russian Museum.

About the war and the "three geese"

Military finds are not of interest to everyone, because during the search you can stumble upon a mine, and you don’t want to have problems with the law. If you find a cartridge, you will already face Article No. 222 of the Criminal Code (Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons. - Ed.), popularly called “three geese”.

There are official groups of search engines - often these are veteran internationalists, seasoned rolls. They are looking for the remains of fighters, explosive objects to destroy. Sometimes underneath all this lies an unspoken trade in finds. Those who join the team are lucky, they dig officially.

There are also scumbags. Official search engines are competitors for them, and the remains of fighters are ballast. Bones have no value at all.

People are busy turning over graves and throwing grenades into fires. They are looking for rarities in good condition, rare, with interesting marks. Rewards are found infrequently, mostly dishes, personal items, weapons.

Search in houses

Thousands of villages across Russia are abandoned. The finds there are modest: furniture, naive peasant art, icons, papers. In places where there was serfdom, sometimes you come across items from estates. I don’t consider searching in them to be looting; you need to search, but not destroy.

A few months ago we found a rare “bobby” table in the Jacobean style from Napoleonic times (the table top is round, concave on one side, reminiscent of a bean. - Ed.). The unknown people were unable to take it and, apparently, broke it out of despair. We collected pieces of rosewood veneer along the floor. The museum refused to take this “junk,” but the collector took it for 20 thousand rubles and gave it for restoration.

About immoral excavations

“Surfing” means conducting illegal excavations. As soon as the archaeologists leave the site, the robbers arrive. Winter belongs to them. They dig a hole and move forward, scanning the waste with the apparatus. Like an earthworm they pass through all the soil. The work is hard, but rewarding.

With this search method, the cultural layer of eras of no interest is cut off and everything is mixed up, but the number of finds becomes many times greater.

Museum envy

Museums do not have the money to buy these finds. Searchers breathe dust for hours, tear clothes, carry furniture, and clean objects. All this is hard, complex work, and you want to get rewarded for it. Maybe someone fanatically saves rare items and keeps them at home or donates them to museums, but the majority are sold to collectors.

Experienced diggers don’t like it when topics are “scorched.” After all, the fewer people who know how and where to look for cop sites, the greater the chance that an interesting place will end up without a “lunar landscape.” But with this article I decided to “burn” one method that helps, in a tightly knocked-out place, to raise ancient objects in rather indecent quantities. I admit, the method is as simple as two, but without experience or outside help, I would not have thought of it myself. An experienced searcher will only smile when reading this post, but for a beginner it will be very useful, as it will help recoup the cost of his metal detector in a few steps.

Broken place.

What is this “knocked out place”? It is generally accepted that this is the field that has been scanned up and down by many metal detectors and now resembles a lunar landscape. I would say differently: this is the place that gave seekers many valuable finds, and now there is not a SINGLE color signal left here. This is the knocked out place.

Do you think I didn’t look in such places? This happened more than once. We arrive at the field and in 2.5 hours there are only 2 color signals for three metal detectors and then someone was too lazy to pick up the aluminum wire. After such trips, the ancient habitat of people sees fewer and fewer diggers in its open spaces every month, until it acquires the universal label “knocked out.”

Tell me: how many times have you heard “there’s nothing there anymore” or “everything has already been knocked out there”? And even at the last mine, a comrade said these words to me about one field, although I raised my first ones there.

Applications of the technique.

And how do experienced diggers pick up valuable objects in such cleared fields? What kind of technique do they use? And here everything is simple: they are waiting. Yes, just are waiting...waiting for a tractor to come into the field and plow (or disc) it. And that’s it: there was an empty place, but now it’s filled with a bunch of valuable artifacts. Now, your task is to find objects that have appeared due to plowing, which is sometimes not so easy.

Examples from our own practice.

And now you are the first to arrive at a field abandoned by all the diggers, on which a tractor and plow have already “walked”, and interesting finds do not take long to arrive. In a week, in such a place there will be a mass of holes that are not yours, but a month later they will make a stadium out of this field, having heard about the finds that have appeared there again. So, when we go to a plowed area and pick up ancient objects there, we don’t tell anyone else about it.

Vegetable gardens.

A place that is broken for everyone, and you are digging for thousand-year-old objects on it - it feels great! But, first of all, I want to show you exclusively the trampled area, which I have been vacuuming for the fourth time! season.

Yes, this is a vegetable garden, which, after “stirring” the top layer of soil, I every time gives interesting items. The last time I was there was before he was locked up. We removed all last year's grass, plowed it and leveled it. It would seem that what else can be found there, if in the fall I walked through this vegetable garden, trail after trail, and so on for what year in a row? And here’s what I ended up taking from there:

In the fall of 2016, I haven’t visited this garden yet - the owner is harvesting his harvest there late.

Here's an interesting find in a neighboring garden, which was knocked out last year by the owner's relative.

This find was almost on the surface, so a digger with any metal detector would not have missed it.

Fields.

Vegetable gardens are convenient for the seeker because they are close. Personally, I just need to come to the village and then spend just a couple of minutes on foot to get to the coping point. But to get to the desired field, you will need transport for this. So I have more opportunities to plant vegetable gardens than fields.

We tend first those fields that are close to the city, since there are more opportunities for monitoring them. And this year, once or even twice a week we went and “grazed” one field that had been broken down by all the diggers in the city. And finally he was released. The surface for searching with a metal detector was not the most pleasant.

What to do, you have to walk. My s is fully sensitive and does not produce false alarms when it comes into contact with stubble. But, not only the stubble, but also small grooves, lumps and tubercles left by the disc prevent normal scanning of the field. If you have a reel in a housing with the initials AKA, then be careful not to let it happen.

The knocked out place is also prepared after harvesting - what can be found in such a place? My most interesting finds according to chronology, look in the gallery:

This is on a broken and discarded place in 4 hours of leisurely digging. Even a little rain couldn't drive me away from that place. This, of course, is thanks to the cover, which covered the electronics unit from lethal drops falling on it (and this already happened). It is mandatory for all MDs to have a cover on the block.

These are the finds I dug up that day. I have already sold a couple of them, thereby recouping the spent gasoline.

On the other side of the city where I live, there is another famous field. No one has been walking on it for several years, since there are practically no finds there. They said that when the aureus was raised there, 20 people trampled on it every day! The finds there are mainly from the Cheka, the late empire and early Soviets. There is also a Kyrgyz Republic, but it is very poor.

Thousands of people of different ages, social groups and incomes are digging in Russia; students, lawyers, officials, businessmen. They are united by an interest in studying the history of the country and their native land. And also - the desire to replenish numismatic collections with royal coins, which were in wide circulation and therefore of little interest to archaeologists. The position of the majority of scientists is this: amateurs should not interfere with the development of historical science, all diggers should be prosecuted by law.

A digger, director of one of the Yekaterinburg law firms, talks about the dark and light sides of the amateur cop “E-U” Alexey Silivanov:

I immediately propose to differentiate the concepts. There are black archaeologists: they are deliberately looking for antiquity - the Middle Ages and earlier times. And there are diggers: they are interested in coins (they appeared in the Urals since the time of Peter the Great), and they can rather be called local historians. I'm one of those people myself. About ten years ago I got a metal detector, I became interested, I went somewhere to the edge of the village, to the site of a former fair, and began looking for coins.

- Are there many such diggers in Russia?

I think thousands.

“Bite” up to 30 centimeters

-Are you somehow organized?

About ten or eleven years ago, the first affordable metal detectors appeared, and at the same time specialized Internet resources became widespread. An appropriate forum was created in Yekaterinburg where people communicated. It still exists today. In Russia there are several large forums and a huge number of small ones on this topic.

- Are metal detectors expensive?

The equipment is different, costs from 5 to 70 thousand rubles. More expensive metal detectors go to great depths, distinguish non-ferrous metals well from ferrous ones, and are able to determine the size of an object. Of course, if you find a tank at a depth of three meters, any metal detector will ring. But if you are looking for a coin, then the effective search depth with a metal detector is up to 30 centimeters. Going deeper is not yet possible.

- What social strata do people work as cops? Is this a hobby or a source of income?

First of all, numismatists are passionate about this. They dig for coins to add to their collections. These are people who are close in spirit. It's like fishing here. There is no competition, everyone is happy to meet and communicate, perhaps without revealing the places where the coins are found.

You won't make money doing this activity. You will spend much more on gasoline, food, and a car than you will earn from selling the coins you find. But you walk several tens of kilometers a day in the fresh air and do physical labor. It puts you in a good mood and relaxes you after work. Well, it’s clear that discoveries are always pleasant.

- Where do you get your knowledge about where and what to dig?

We know the history of the settlement of these places. We know where the villages were located, where factories were created at the end of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries, and settlements arose around them. Since the 18th century, there have been maps showing settlement locations. Many museums are now digitizing cartographic materials; they can be found on the Internet.

- What about earlier settlements?

This is already the sphere of interest of black archaeologists. If we talk about specific areas, there are lists of archaeological sites where you should under no circumstances dig without an open sheet issued by scientists. These lists of cultural historical monuments, as a rule, are contained in the relevant decrees of the authorities. However, the information there is far from complete.

Archaeological scientists have their own lists, but they are not in public space. Diggers who search in places with a high degree of probability of containing archaeological objects (early Iron Age, Middle Ages) are acting illegally, here I fully support archaeologists.

Consumer goods are illegal

- How much are the coins that diggers find worth?

In the Urals you can find coins from the post-Petrine era. As a rule, you come across copper ones, but even them in good condition are very difficult to find. Sometimes nothing good comes along during the season. Tsar's coins sell from 10 to 300 rubles apiece, depending on condition. But this is consumer goods. Due to the fact that people are now actively using metal detectors, a large number of copper coins have been thrown into the numismatic market. If desired, you can buy them in buckets.

- How do diggers find buyers?

Personally, I’m not interested in buyers; I attach coins to tablets and give them to friends. Sometimes I exchange. There are famous places in Yekaterinburg where they sell coins. Previously on Weiner, now near the Ural Economic University. Coins are also sold at flea markets. There are antique shops and numismatic shops. People who do this professionally know their sellers and buyers. Coins that are really good, as a rule, go to Moscow.

- How are the activities of diggers regulated by Russian legislation?

In 2013, a federal law was passed that put diggers virtually outside the legal framework. He introduced the concept of cultural-historical layer. This is a layer older than a hundred years. And a hundred years is the pre-revolutionary period. In fact, all of Tsarist Russia was outlawed. That is, the person who found the royal coin is obliged to declare the discovery of an object of archaeological heritage. And special bodies should investigate the find. Diggers view this negatively, as some kind of quirk of the legislator. Because it’s one thing when you find antiquities several thousand years old, and quite another when it’s a thing from the beginning of the 20th century, which in general is of no value to scientists, it’s consumer goods. Archaeologists are absolutely not interested in the period of late Tsarist Russia. Coins of this time are a mass material, you can find tons of it.

A couple of years ago, they caught a man who was trying to take some kind of royal silver coin from Russia, the market price of which was 500 rubles. He was detained for exporting cultural property and a criminal case was opened. But the antique and numismatic market still exists, not for the first year and not for the last. Therefore, the attitude of diggers to this kind of laws is as a way of redistributing goods: those who have the opportunity to grab something better for themselves try to take it from others. It is unlikely that such a law is a real protection of cultural property from looting. By saying that it is impossible to dig, legislators created an enemy, calmed part of the scientific community, but never defined clear criteria for what can be done and what cannot be done.

History belongs to the people

-Have you tried to establish normal contacts with archaeologists?

At one time, we made attempts to establish communication with museums. Their employees asked us: if there are archaeological finds, let us know. It didn't end well. If a digger keeps a diary and indicates that he found some old plaque in such and such a place, he will, in fact, sign his own death sentence. And representatives of the archaeological community for the most part are hostile to diggers.

There is no legislative framework for constructive dialogue today. I think that if diggers were given the opportunity to keep field diaries, report finds to archaeologists, and keep objects of no cultural value for themselves, they would agree to such a mechanism of interaction. And the information base of archaeologists would expand significantly. I know an example when one of the diggers in the Chelyabinsk region began to come across elements of belts and harnesses. With the help of his friends, he contacted archaeologists, and it turned out that he had discovered a monument of essentially all-Russian significance. The monument characterized the migration of people during the Middle Ages; it was a layering of different nations. One of the respected archaeologists said that he had been looking for such a monument all his life, he had been digging this monument for five years now and expressed great gratitude for being informed about it. This is an example of constructive cooperation - no one was punished, archaeologists gained access to a unique monument, which they might not have gotten to with a different approach.

- Is the release of the Domongol almanac in 2010 also an example of constructive cooperation?

Just the opposite. It was a period of uncertainty from a legal point of view. There was an all-Russian Internet forum where a group of like-minded people gathered. And they began to search all over the Internet for information about random archaeological finds in order to publish the data and introduce it into scientific circulation. After all, what is the problem? Scientists say: what is dug up and not put into scientific circulation is lost to science. So, in order not to be lost, the publishers of the almanac tried to find a connection between archaeologists and diggers and publish information about these finds. People brought to light what someone had somewhere. But only a few issues of Domongol were published. There were rumors that archaeologists presented this almanac almost to the president - that's what the damned black diggers do.

As a result, a few years later a law was passed that significantly tightened all relations related to archaeological finds.

And the almanac is very interesting. There are articles, color photographs of finds - arrowheads, examples of early Christian sculpture, crosses, moons, coins, elements of weapons, bird-shaped idols. Probably, from the point of view of scientists, the publications are somewhere naive. But people wrote it sincerely and with great interest.

The archaeologists themselves have not published anything like this. Official archaeological research has been carried out for a very long time and a lot has been found. But where is it all? When I arrive in any city, the first thing I do is go to the local history museum. As a rule, it's miserable there. There are individual exhibits, everything else is stored somewhere. Where, in what condition, who is monitoring it? Archaeologists discovered the find, described it in a scientific article and that’s it. Such finds are not paintings by great artists; they are much easier to write off. Note that rust has eaten it up and calmly take it for yourself.

- So, the attitude towards diggers on the part of scientists is definitely negative?

Yes. Some of my friends participated in scientific conferences. About 20 - 30 percent of scientists perceive the information complacently, but the rest shout: drive away this black digger, he has no historical education, why are we listening to him? But I believe that history should be closer to the people, and not only to those who have the appropriate education.

Ordinary amateurs are ready to invest their resources and time in studying their native land. And it is necessary to create a legislative framework for the formation of private museums. Because people have collections of antiquities, but there is no way to brag about them. I assure you that people will let everyone there for free. Now they do not have such an opportunity, because it is illegal, and there is a risk that the state will try to take away the collections.

For cooperation without a metal detector

Lovers of antiquity can satisfy their interest in history by participating in archaeological expeditions, believes Deputy Director of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences Natalya Chairkina

— The terrifying situation with the activities of black diggers is typical not only for Russian archeology, but also for foreign ones too. There is destruction of archaeological sites, removal from cultural layers of individual objects that are most valuable from the point of view of black diggers. These are mainly metal products. Thus, the integrity of the archaeological complex is violated. Some steps are being taken by government agencies, but they are not very effective.

In my opinion, from a legal point of view it will be extremely difficult to separate “numismatists” and black hoarders. Because even if some kind of legislation is introduced on this matter, black diggers will hide behind it and call themselves “numismatists.”

Archaeologists do not agree to such a mechanism of interaction, when diggers inform scientists about their finds, leaving for themselves something supposedly not interesting for science. Only a specialist archaeologist who has the appropriate education and experience in field work can determine the significance and value of a particular artifact.

As for the discovery of new archaeological monuments, there must be appropriate funding from the state and local authorities in order for these monuments to be identified, registered and taken under protection. And then there will be no need to attract black diggers to find new archaeological monuments for science and society. This is a matter for specialists.

If history buffs want to help explore their native land, please interact with us. Join our archaeological expeditions, which are held every year in various regions of the Urals, in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, and in the Chelyabinsk region. Satisfy your interest.

Of course, it’s good when diggers tell us about the discovery of a new archaeological site. But how was it discovered? Using a metal detector and a shovel? Now, if we exclude these elements, then any archaeologist would be grateful. There are lovers of antiquity, local historians, with whom official science, of course, should cooperate. And I quite often receive letters saying that mammoth bones have been discovered in an outcrop of some river or that some burial ground is being eroded. We are grateful for this kind of information. But I personally will never accept attempts to discover archaeological sites by non-specialists.

Prepared by Pavel Kober

Recently I spoke with an archaeologist, like an official one... He called simple diggers shit mixers. He denounced us in black. The funny thing is that I introduced myself as a collector - at the end of the conversation, this official archaeologist offered to evaluate the gold aura. And which of us is the shit?

Remember the saint who was hit with a shovel? Still, they sold this saint for 2 thousand dollars. Let's look at the fresh expensive finds of diggers, successfully and not so successfully, sold at the Violity auction.

Tetrobolus (head of Demeter) – $4810

A rare antique coin with a retrograde legend, cast in bronze. Weight is 101.5 grams (for a coin, 100 grams is cool!), diameter is 65 mm. The Tetrabol of Dimeter was sold at a digging auction for a considerable $4810.

Golden fibula – $4000

A rare handmade fibula, the age of which can reach 2000 years. Such a thing could only belong to a rich, influential person, and finding one on a mine is a great success.

19 grams of pure gold still cannot find its new owner - the seller wants $4,000, and buyers offer several times less.

Icon-pendant (Savior Emmanuel) – $2080

Still, they sold the saint who was hit with a shovel. Not the first time...

The icon of the masters of the Galician-Volyn principality of the 13th-14th century may have been lost during the invasion of the Golden Horde.

R10, such may be the rarity of this icon, but despite this, from the first time none of the collectors gave the price (want) of the digger for this rarity.

Scythian gold – $1400

An ancient artifact, the purpose of which experts do not have a consensus on: an incense bowl, a needle bar, a reliquary.

Scythian gold of 900 purity and weighing 16.93 grams was sold at auction for $1,400.

Altynnik 1712 – $1220

This coin has a diameter of 14 mm and a weight of 0.77 g. made of 802 silver is a desirable item in the collection of any numismatist. Rarity R2. Despite the defect, there was considerable excitement: 181 bets and the digger pocketed $1,220.

Kizikin Stater – $1200

The material of the antique coin is electr (an alloy of gold, silver, copper and other metals). The stater shows a bull's head to the right and a tuna vertical.

An antique gold coin weighing 16 grams found its new owner for $1200.

These are the expensive finds that the diggers sold at the Violiti digging auction. I would like to add, an underground auction. Is he underground?))

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