At the end of 2007 en during 2008 we had th chance to metal detect in a garden of a house where Vincent van Gogh lived in Nuenen, the Netherlands. Actually it was his parents house. His father was a protestant minister in a mainly catholic village. Van Gogh stayed there from 1886 to 1888. He was very productive during this period. The most well known painting from Nuenen is "the Potatoe Eaters".
The finds
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First hunt#
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Finds first hunt
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Second hunt
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Third hunt
Most remarkable finds:
Can of paint
The first hunt we found a can of blue oil paint. The ingredients point at normal house paint, but researchers found
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hair in the paint that was used for artists brushes. Van Gogh used household paint and printing ink during his stay in Nuenen.
Lots of pieces of pottery
During our second hunt a guy was working on the sewers of the house. We say the sand that came out contained a lot of pieces of pottery, mostly dating from the last quarter of the 1800's. Several objects are used in van Gogh's paintings. We also found a lot of glass and a few clay pipes
During a large part of the research and the third and last hunt a documentary was made and available on DVD.
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Trailer of the documentary
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