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Below you can dive into my little universe filled with metal detecting, militaria and relics, world war two- and military history, miniature modelling and relic art.
Finds
Here you will find different finds and items from my expeditions and barn hunts.
Inka
16 hours ago2 min read
Ashtrays & Smoking Paraphernalia
On my digs I am often finding ashtrays and lighters, and now and then pipes and cigarett mouthpieces. Naturally I like the trench-art
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Inka
7 days ago2 min read
Battle damaged Helmets
I thought I should share some battle damaged helmets I have collected through the years. Often when you see helmets like this posted online
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Inka
Mar 21 min read
Gebirgsjäger Luggage Tags
Over the years I have collected a small pile of such tags which were attached to the soldiers backpack. All of them looks to be "field made"
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Inka
Feb 211 min read
The Best Finds of 2025
2024 was a really good metal detecting season. I moved more soil than a large family of groundhogs could manage and brought home half a shed
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Inka
Dec 6, 20241 min read
Fishing Equipment
All this fishing equipment has been found in dumping pits in gebirgsjäger camps during the last couple of years. The field kitchen units
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Inka
Nov 20, 20241 min read
Toothbrushes & Toothpaste
I spent an hour sorting the brushes by color and the cream tubes after brands and ended up with 83 brushes, 49 tubes, 6 toothpowder tins and
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Inka
Apr 27, 20241 min read
The Best helmets from 2023
2023 was a good year for helmets, many of the lids I dug up were in bad shape, but some had survived very well. Here Im sharing pics of the
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Inka
Apr 27, 20241 min read
A Field Shower
A Gebirgsjägers field shower made from a 10l triangular fuel can. The bottom was perforated, a rubber hose attached between the "shower head
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Inka
Mar 10, 20241 min read
Badges & Bling found Season 2023
Wound Badge and IAB found together. The bent needles hints of an abrupt separation from the uniform they sat on.
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Inka
Jan 30, 20231 min read
The Best Helmets of 2022
I carried many helmets out of the forest in 2022. Some were rusted and deteriorated beyond any hope, but quite a few had survived the eighty
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Inka
Jan 13, 20231 min read
Medals, Badges & Awards Found season 2022
Before October ended the ground had already frozen and closed the digging season. I hoped for a while that we would get a few weeks of mild
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Inka
Jul 3, 20221 min read
"Maschinengewehr-Gustav"
Lately Northern Norway has had too warm weather for searching and digging but now rain and cooler temps are on the horizon so prehaps it...
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Inka
Oct 22, 20211 min read
German Ear Warmers
I realized it was a set of homemade earmuffs to wear under the cap or helmet. A really cool find and it is pretty neat that the woolen item
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Inka
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Opening a Relic Box
Yesterday I found a small metal tin which had some contents. I knew from its shape and size that it was a Maskenbrille box. Maskenbrille
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Inka
Jun 12, 20211 min read
Two Helmets Before and After Cleaning
A little more than a week ago I found a small ditch with two German helmets. They did look a bit rusty but I knew there would be some origin
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Inka
May 30, 20211 min read
​The Trench-Art Football!
Last week I found an unusual "Trench-art" item, a Football! Found in a dumping pit in a Gebirgsjäger camp
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Inka
Dec 30, 20201 min read
German Winter Parka & A Sheepskin Vest
Here are two items I found in a shed this autumn, a winter parka and a sheepskin vest.
The parka is reversible, white on one side
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Inka
Nov 15, 20201 min read
German Foldable Field Map Table
a German foldable map table. It measure 70cm x 70cm and is ca 75cm tall. It is well made with brass edges, spikes on the legs and it has a
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Inka
May 28, 20201 min read
Two Wooden Boxes
when I worked at the garbage dump I one morning rescued a POW art wooden box from the container, and they must have been made by the same
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Inka
Jun 12, 20151 min read
Meldebüchse für Heereshunde
While searching a capitulation site in Northern Norway this summer, where units from I.R 193 capitulated after having withdrawn
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