Fifteen years ago, a metal detector fanatic found a bronze ax in a meadow near Bronneger. You can only fantasize about how the prehistoric tools ended up. That is exactly what Otto Torenbosch from Gasselternijveen did and he wrote a children’s book about it.
If possible, Torenbosch walks with his metal detector over fields and fields. Looking for treasures from the past. “I have a busy job and this gives me a lot of peace. Then I put on my headphones and I only hear the squeaking of the device,” he says.
Often he only searches in the earth for objects from history, but every now and then he sets off with comrade Gert Lugthart. They regularly find pieces of old iron, bronze cables and here and there an old coin. Sometimes they come across something special, as Lugthart did fifteen years earlier.
“He found a bronze ax in the search near Bronneger,” Torenbosch recalls. “It is four thousand years old. You can only find something like that once in your life.” Torbosch intrigues the guessing to the story behind the ax immensely. So much that he decides to write about it.
The result is a children’s book entitled Sam and Saar and the secret of the bronze ax. In the book, the father of the pair comes up with his metal detector at Het Wapen. Sam then dreams about the origin of the ax and thus makes a journey through the past. They are looking for answers with his sister and father.
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