Question for our European Brothers and Sisters

[Dadio]

In the States, it's not that uncommon to run across some stone tool or pottery fragment from the Native Americans. It's not that it happens each time out, or even every year, but I've found a few and know people who have literally picked up buckets of these points, axes, hoes etc. over the years. How rare is it to run across some Paleolithic or Neolithic or later artificacts when you are out and about, and what are the regulations regarding such finds? Just curious.

 

[Tacticalpink]

Hi,
to be honest i've never found anything like that here and never heard of anybody who did.
here in Germany we've some old settlements from the Romans which are modern citys now, like cologne. They have left us some buildings too but i thinks thats all...

 

[styx]

A lot of old cities and settlements are dug out. Anything from an earlier age is a matter of luck really and hard to run across. Actually I can't even find the books that belong to my family that could have interesting things in them as we used to be smiths.

And most countries won't kill you about a small find but you should report that you have found something.

 

[Sambo]

There is a great number of Roman time tools and stuff in the south ,the great number of early signs of mankind are under protection of the state , now you find that there are a great number of people who like us have a strong interest in the history, they can go to the local museum and get all the info needed to reproduce the tools of that time beside joining various groups/forums where they can get all the help needed to build them

 

[L.V]

There is something found in regular basis in Finland, but this isn't my field of knowledge nor big interest so I can't answer really anything specific. Any artifact found in Finland belongs to state, not founder.

 

[Tor Helge]

I have never found anything (I haven`t really looked after artifacts either).
There wasn`t to many people here at that time, and thus the forrest isn`t exactly littered with artifacts.
Most finds are dug up by archeologs or farmers plowing the fields.
Mostly they find bronze age/iron age stuff, but occationally stone age tools.
The rule is that the state owns the stuff.
But I have heard about people finding stone axes, contacting the museums, and the museums have no interest in it as it is a so called loose find (not in context with a settlement or campsite). Guess they have enough of them already.

There are lots of iron age burial mounds around though. Most of them plundered ages ago.

 

[mbiraman]

I'm on BCUK ; and someone not too long ago found a highly polished stone axe head in incredible shape while out for a stroll in the UK countryside. I believe it was 3500 or 5500 yrs old. It was found near a site that is known to turn up things every once and a while. I just tried to find the thread but no luck.

bill