September 11, 2025 A Visitor From Denmark What a pleasant day. My daughter Katrine is visiting us, all the way from Denmark and at her request, and no, not at my urging, she said that she wanted to go out with Dad, metal detecting. So we did ! September 11th, in fact the entire week she visited, the weather was great. Perfect metal detecting weather for mid-September. We went to Two Little Points, which is my favorite "go to" place. It boasts of a long history with the remnants of Gautier to be found over a wide area. Gautier was a small pioneer collection of a few houses and barns and a blacksmith shop and a grist mill that died out when everything moved to Letellier in the late 1890’s when the railway came through. The location did not disappoint although our time was cut short a bit by a sudden rain squall accompanied by lightning and thunder. I really don’t know how safe it is to be out in an open field, swinging a metal coil under those conditions but we persevered until we were both wet and the soil was getting tacky. As always, there were ample ground finds to be had, even with the chaff from the recent wheat harvest still covering most of the ground. Our last 10 minutes were spent trying to locate a high pitch signal that was being stubbornly masked by iron signals. There it is…. Opps… now it’s gone. Ahhhwwww… We did however find a melted lead piece and brass item to which Katrine said “Hey, it says 12 E on it”. That my dear is 12 gauge and the “E” part is for Eley shotgun shells but the relic was too mangled to be able to make out a time frame. We eventually had to abandon our hunt for that elusive “Beep” as the rain was picking up and yes, my goal was to be able to drive ourselves out of the wheat field too. All and all, this was just one of many fine days of adventure and exploring Manitoba. Ice-cream at the Forks, a visit to Tulabi Falls in Nopiming Provincial Park and a visit and tour of the family farm were all part of the schedule. I hope that I may have instilled the detecting bug onto my daughter. Metal detecting in Denmark would be a blast…. Does a Viking gold hoard come to mind for anyone? Roger Reference: https://www.livescience.com/gold-hoard-sixth-century-denmark https://cartridge-corner.com/shotgun2.htm