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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.

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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Dec 6, 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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Nov 20, 20241 min read

80 years since the Sinking of Tirpitz

Today, the 12th November 2024 it is 80 years since RAF bombers gave the german battleship Tirpitz her final blow where she was laying

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Nov 12, 20241 min read

A Last Hurray & a Helmet in the Woods

Nearby I dug up a small mortar grenade box. It looks like it will clean up nicely and is in good condition with only a small hole rusted

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Oct 28, 20246 min read

The Frost Is Back

I had some Tetra fire extinguisher racks piled up behind a tree from earlier in the season and wanted to collect them. I swung the detector

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Oct 21, 20244 min read

Not Done Yet

A few minutes later another very good signal rang out. From under the moss came another amazing find! I saw a small brass square in the soil

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Oct 14, 20245 min read

A Coinspill & Bits for Vehicles

The following signal was much better but was just a handfull of rifle ammo. 8mm Norwegian rounds for the Colt machinegun, but produced under

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Oct 7, 20245 min read

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