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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.

Five Grams of Silver

A Danish coin came out of the ground together with a simple, unmarked silver ring, and a nametag made of some synthetic fibre.

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Sep 30, 20243 min read

Medal, Money & Snow

I followed signals around the medal for the next hours and the result was pretty good. Several well preserved coins, Finnish,German and Norw

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Sep 23, 20243 min read

Lapplandschild Part 2 & 3

And I was right. It was full of metal. But wait! Wasn`t there an imprint on it, looking a lot like the top of a Lappland Shield?

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Sep 16, 20245 min read

Coins & Vehicle Parts

Next to a pine tree was the one half of an Erkennungsmärke! I looked around for the second half but I only got a pair of belt support hooks

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Sep 2, 20244 min read

Helmet & Close Combat Knife

Only a signal or two later the first drops of rain fell. I picked up speed and in the next half hour I found a pocketwatch holder, a bottle

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Aug 26, 20244 min read

Another Iron Signal Paying Off

Walking back to the parking place to head home I found a wallet with a few Finnish coins in and around it. But I ended the day with

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Aug 19, 20244 min read

E.T.`s Silver

I fished out an intact gebirgsjäger boot and several bits of helmet liner leather, chin straps and some k98 ammo pouches.

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Aug 12, 20243 min read

MKB 6/511 Skrolsvik

The germans began the work on the fortress in winter 1941. By early summer the first cannons were on place and the fort operative.

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Aug 9, 20242 min read

Searching the Gebirgs Artillerie Quarters

Here you can see the ghost of the regiment number on the shoulderboard. "112" - Gebirgs Artillerie Regiment 112.

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Aug 5, 20245 min read

A Badge for Baard

Earlier I had found a few nice things there, like EKMs and some medals and badges but the last time I visited I didn`t get any good finds,

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Jul 29, 20245 min read

1066

Recently I completed painting this gem of a figure. It is 120mm and from the portugese manufacturer RPModels.

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Jul 28, 20241 min read

Medal Day

On my first trip I spent much of the day in and around the medical barrack in one of the Gebirgsjäger camps. I was checking signals until I

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Jul 22, 20245 min read

Belt Buckle, Baby Walther & Board Game Bits

Tuesday morning, around 09 I was in the gebirgsjäger camp covering myself in bugspray, getting ready for some walking and digging.

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Jul 15, 20244 min read

Romantic Trench-Art

A little bit later luck struk again when I checked a signal under a root of a big old tree. I thought it was a DP27 magazine but it was the

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Jul 8, 20245 min read

An Interesting Trench-Art Ring

I picked up a couple of signals on the way and found a shaving brush and two Dutch uniform buttons. Soviet POWs were sometimes issued

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Jun 30, 20244 min read

A Kilo of Buttons

On the side of the lanterns a full gasmask container and a single gasmask had been dumped. When I had cleared one side of the dump I turned

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Jun 24, 20245 min read

A Very Annoying Find

It was a beautifully made Finnish ring. Two parts, the band and the shield with the Finnish lion. Usually these were made from cutting the

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Jun 17, 20244 min read

Signs of the Gebirgsmarine

I worked along the edge of it and freed a small shovel and a knife, a rotten field torch and a couple of coins. Except a small porcelain jar

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Jun 9, 20243 min read

Still frost in the Ground

Some of the signals I just had to give up because of the ice, but after a couple of hours my pockets were heavy with smaller bits and I was

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Jun 3, 20243 min read

Digging in the North, Season 12

It didn`t take long to see that the ground was still quite frozen. Most places we couldn`t dig more than a few centimeters before drills and

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May 19, 20244 min read