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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.
More Trench Art
The well started to dry out but I was still fighting one of the last relics loose from a rock holding it tight. A gasmask canister, and
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Sep 14, 20223 min read
The Mother of All Luggage Tags
One of the next days I joined my friend Jimmy to search in his Gebirgsjäger camp. An enormous camp filled with signals in the ground.
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Sep 8, 20224 min read
Helmet & Other Goodies
A small square piece of metal met with the tip of my bayonet. I gave it a rub against the clean back of my glove and saw the word "Petsamo".
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Sep 1, 20224 min read
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 25, 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 22, 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 19, 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 18, 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 12, 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 8, 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 21, 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 19, 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 12, 20224 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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Jul 4, 20221 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 16, 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 13, 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 8, 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 31, 20223 min read
Who are you in a world on fire?
The exhibition focus on six people in northern Norway during the war and their different choices and fates .
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May 28, 20221 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 22, 20224 min read
Austerveg. 1/35
It is depicting two Norwegian Waffen-SS guys in deep snow somewhere on the Eastern Front. Prehaps they jumped off their vehicle to try find
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Feb 9, 20221 min read
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