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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.

Forests of Norway

Metal detecting trips and expeditions in the Northern Norwegian forests and mountains.

A Ditch Full of Lids

A super beginning of the dig! Under it was a rifle cleaning kit and some stripper clips full of 7.92 rounds. Then I felt the round domes of

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Aug 24, 20224 min read

Der Knüppel

This weekend I searched on an interesting piece of land. It is a bit high up in the terrain where the Germans constructed a small camp

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Aug 21, 20224 min read

Gebirgsjäger EKM & Helmets

I opened up the first one and had a EKM between my fingers! From a Gebirgsjäger unit! Fantastic. I could almost not have dreamt of a better

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Aug 18, 20224 min read

A Destroyed Lapplandfront Cross

I pryed loose a stone from the side of the ditch and together with it flew a Lapplandfront Cross!! I saw it like in slow motion as it spun

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Aug 17, 20223 min read

Bog Lids

I found bits from gebirgsjäger boots and several leather frogs for k98 bayonet scabbard and a few ammo pouches. Some weaker steel signals

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Aug 11, 20223 min read

They Call Me the Notek King

next to it there was a "Verbandkasten", a Red Cross medic kit box (it was empty) and a massive piece of metal that I think might be

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Aug 7, 20224 min read

Leather Day

I walked into a small open patch in the birch forest and there was a lonely signal waiting to be found. When I saw the square piece of metal

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Jul 20, 20223 min read

Twelve Shades of Zink

Around the barrack he had found a couple of coins. A Norwegian one and a beautiful Finnish 5 Markkaa. After walking around for a while we

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Jul 18, 20226 min read

Hundreds of Gaming Pieces

We had put our backpacks near a huge anthill so naturally the army of tiny workers had made highways towards the food bag and became a bit

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Jul 11, 20224 min read

Coins & Goggles

Now I took out a kettle and turned it upside down to empty the soil from it. The bottom was full of coins!

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Jun 15, 20224 min read

Steel Flower & Iron Hats

I was gonna continue in the Gebirgsjäger camp and found a nice place to set up base for the day and threw down the backpack.

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Jun 12, 20224 min read

Beltbuckles & Truppenfahrrad Parts

I began the search outside of the Gebirgjäger camps stable area and had a few signals almost immediately. It was part of a liner band from

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Jun 7, 20223 min read

Two Helmets on Monday

I began in the stable area of the gebirgsjäger camp and was planning to do some extra searching where I had found all the coins last time

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May 30, 20223 min read

A Long Winter is Over

I spent the week checking out a few places that has come up during research, to check them out if there could have been any wartime activity

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May 21, 20224 min read

Spring in November

t was only patches of snow left in the forest and even if the ground wasn`t completely thawed it was easy enough to dig. Of course it didn`t

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Nov 6, 20213 min read

Three Helmets Thursday

Near one of the barracks it should be a small dumping pit I had started once, and I went to try find it. As has happened many times before

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Oct 7, 20214 min read

Fishing Lures and a Panzer Skull

Quite near to the dumping pit I found a small hoard of coins, Norwegian ones ranging from 1933 to 1942. A T.Mi.Z.35 fuze missing its top

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Sep 27, 20213 min read

Lappland Campaign Shield

Could it really be? The item I always dreamed about having in my collection. My "Holy Grail". I got on my feet to find water and clean the

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Sep 13, 20214 min read

Notek & Tetra

Next to it was two gasmask containers, one had the lid open, but the mask looks to be ok, the other one was closed but also have the mask

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Sep 7, 20214 min read

Lapplandfront Cross again!!

I was looking at a Nordfront- or Lapplandfront Cross sticking out from the soil! The two last seasons I have found two of these awards

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Sep 1, 20213 min read