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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.

A Kilo of Buttons

On the side of the lanterns a full gasmask container and a single gasmask had been dumped. When I had cleared one side of the dump I turned

Inka

Jun 23, 20245 min read

A Very Annoying Find

It was a beautifully made Finnish ring. Two parts, the band and the shield with the Finnish lion. Usually these were made from cutting the

Inka

Jun 16, 20244 min read

Still frost in the Ground

Some of the signals I just had to give up because of the ice, but after a couple of hours my pockets were heavy with smaller bits and I was

Inka

Jun 2, 20243 min read

Digging in the North, Season 12

It didn`t take long to see that the ground was still quite frozen. Most places we couldn`t dig more than a few centimeters before drills and

Inka

May 18, 20244 min read

Trench-Art Day

I have seen these type of shields come out of WW1 positions in Latvia,and knew the Germans had brought them to the Northern front during WW1

Inka

Sep 30, 20234 min read

The Ullr Badge

I moved to inside the barrack and picked up a signal circa in the middle of it. It was a round piece of metal and I suspected it could be a

Inka

Sep 28, 20234 min read

NotekFest

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

Inka

Sep 18, 20233 min read

Piles of Rust & a Little Silver

Yesterday it was finally time again for a trip out to the woods together with Jimmy. He has been busy this summer trying to make wine into w

Inka

Sep 3, 20233 min read

Buckle & Bling

I drag out from the side of the fireplace an Iron Cross!! What a crazy find! Upon closer inspection I see it has been lucky to survive the

Inka

Sep 2, 20233 min read

Dude, Where`s My Phone ?

Tom strolled out to the slope in front of us, found a signal, removed a little bit of moss and soil, and lifted up an Edelweiss

Inka

Jul 2, 20233 min read

Ditch Diggers

I reached the relic-layer after some fighting with the elements, but when the last rock were out of the way I could pry loose a nice MG

Inka

Jun 25, 20233 min read

Seasons First Adventure Afternoon

I walked half kilometer on the outside of the camp area to check if there could be some undiscovered spots full of signals for us to hunt

Inka

Jun 18, 20233 min read

A New Digging Season

I spent some awesome hours roaming around in a gebirgsjäger camp looking for treasures and good rust. Of course I knew that only the top

Inka

May 22, 20233 min read

Jimmy & Inka`s Adventure Afternoon

We got the coil out of the ditch and could continue digging. Now I had a little luck and pulled out a pipe which I saw was a Panzerfaust 30

Inka

Oct 16, 20226 min read

Iron Cross

I opened my hand and showed him an Iron Cross! It was a bit caked in muck, but it was really an Iron Cross that had found its way into

Inka

Sep 18, 20224 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.

Inka

Sep 7, 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

Inka

Aug 21, 20224 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

Inka

Jul 18, 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

Inka

Jul 11, 20224 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!

Inka

Jun 15, 20224 min read