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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.

Frontkjemper. 1/35

The diorama is showing a frontline bunker where soldiers lived for weeks and months, and a few meters up ahead the frontline with two firing

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Dec 17, 20211 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

Memorial

It is depicting a memorial and graves of Red Army soldiers who died in German labour camps in Northern Norway during WW2

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Oct 31, 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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Oct 23, 20211 min read

Krig / War 1/35

This one I finished a few hours ago and is called "Krig" (War). It is a scene made up of four kids playing war around a ruin somewhere in

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Oct 19, 20211 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 8, 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 28, 20213 min read

Tirpitz Museum Alta

Here you will see everything from small uniform buttons to super-rare relics like an example of a Johnny Walker Diving Mine that were used

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Sep 19, 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 14, 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 8, 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 2, 20213 min read

Soldier Bling & Trench-art

I thought it could be one of those Lapplandfront medals so it got my pulse up a little. I dug more of the item free and then I saw it was a

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Aug 30, 20215 min read

Porcelain & Trench-Art

And then I looked at the thing. It was a trench-art box!! Wow! I placed it in the relic pile and went back to the porcelain.

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Aug 24, 20214 min read

Gorgets & Cyanide

Three gorgets! One of them was of a poor aluminum alloy and completely rotted. The two others were made of thin sheet metal and not in great

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Aug 20, 20213 min read

Troms Defence Museum

The exhibition is based around the local military history, ww2, the Cold War and modern International Operations.

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Aug 6, 20211 min read

Not Every Day is Treasure Day

I switched on the detector and strolled towards the area where I had found the last helmet. It was a few signals along the way worth checkin

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Jul 27, 20212 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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Jul 24, 20211 min read

Helmet on First Sweep

The signal was deep and next to a pine tree so I had to cut my way through some roots to discover a layer of rocks.

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Jul 17, 20213 min read

Third Helmet this Season

Directly under the surface was a german messkit lid waiting for me, and next to it another lid, possibly from a Norwegian messkit

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Jul 14, 20216 min read

On Virgin Land

The pile of relics grew steadily along with the scrap- and spoil heap. I found two bakelite cups for field flasks, lots of bottles

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Jul 11, 20215 min read