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In the camp I searched the first day I roamed around randomly the first few hours not finding very much at all. I was trying to only dig the cleanest and best signals which I have done most of the season, contrary to what I have usually done, dug on everything. The strategy didn`t really pay off this time though. The only things to surface were cream tubes, food tins, unmarked cutlery, stove parts and rather uninteresting bits of field equipment.

Two days ago I ventured back to the gebirgsjäger forest to look for more helmets and such. As I parked the car I noticed that the ground was white of ice. The frost had arrived. But as the sun rose, ( yes, maybe the fifth day with sun since june ) the ice crystals melted. The ground stayed quite cold troughout the day though. The finds during the first few hours was crappy. Food tins, large bolts, bits of sheet metal and other boring stuff. Then I came across a small ravin

Quite instantly the detector picked up on something in the ground. With barely any roots or rocks the ground opened up easily and presented to me a small dumping pit. Leaning towards the sidewall of the hole was a triangular vehicle pennant made from a celluloid covered metal frame. Inside it was a hint of cloth left. Imagine having found it fifteen - twenty years ago, the flag would probably still be recognizable.

Some relics came out together with the stones. A pair of Maskenbrillen, a primus, a rifle cleaning kit, a pair of tent pegs and a five kilo weight. Broken bits of porcelain plates and an intact, but sooted civillian tea cup hinted that better and more interesting stuff could have survived. A little deeper underground I thought I found several TNT blocks. They had the same shape, size and color, but I spotted the logo of a well known norwegian soap maker on one of them.