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I got the box to the surface and it was of the type that had held optical sights for machineguns. And it was heavy. I gently used my blade to open it, hoping the sight would have survived, coz the box was pretty rusted and had probably been cooked in the fire.

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.

under some more junk was a lovely piece of trench-art! A circa fifteen centimeter long piece of a driveband from a grenade, and half of it had been hammered into a blade. A really cool little letter opener.

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.

Over the years I have collected a small pile of such tags which were attached to the soldiers backpack. All of them looks to be "field made"

All this fishing equipment has been found in dumping pits in gebirgsjäger camps during the last couple of years. The field kitchen units

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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