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Three meters away from the Blendax pit I struck upon another little garbage dump. This one was filled with broken glass from bottles and windows. Tons of it. But also a few other relics. It had the third rifle cleaning kit of the day, another gas mask canister, a very interesting bottle I have never seen before, a half rotted K98 ammo pouch and a pair of goggles. And a to me very interesting find.

I had begun walking back to the base camp to collect my stuff and go home when I dug a good signal. It was a fragment of a Nahkampfspange! The needle was twisted, so force had been used to break it in parts. I spent the next hour trawling the spot, piling any finds onto a rock so as to not dig them twice, but the rest of the badge was nowhere to be found.

On my first trip out I were checking signals for an hour before I stumbled upon a small trash pile in a sandy slope. I lured out some intact perfume-, medical- and beer bottles, and a few bits that looks like they belong to some pulley system. When removing more sand a pocket watch appeared, a bit destroyed, but a lovely find in my book.

Since many of the local diggers are starting their season in this camp it is slim pickings when it comes to finds, so three hours in all I had was a couple of food tins, a signal flare and a german made lamp fixture.

I love finding erkennungsmarke as they are very interesting pieces of history. They have an iconic design and often have different styles of

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

The new site was blanketed with all sorts of signals. Within moments Jimmy had found a very interesting hammer neither of us had ever seen

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

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

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.

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.

The days here North are getting shorter and the forests and mountainsides are rapidly getting dressed in yellow, red and orange, and the dig

At one point I felt a roundish object and after ruling out it being a rock it could only be two things, a pee pot or a helmet