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Other than fresh air, nice memories and good moods the best finds for me was the Lappland Shields and the named helmet. I had hope all summer for Erkennungsmarken, but found only one german and three or four Stalag tags, perhaps this is the season I will find a hoard of interesting gebirgsjäger EKMs.

After the light rinse, I drew the rust buckets a warm bath. Of course armed with gloves and good ventilation. First I poured just enough water to cover the bottom of the tub. Then I threw in a handful of Oxalic acid as a substitute for bath salts and dissolved it by stirring. Now I put in the helmets and filled hot-hot-hot water until the lids were submerged

Nearby I dug up a small mortar grenade box. It looks like it will clean up nicely and is in good condition with only a small hole rusted

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

On the bottom of the pit I found a great relic, a canteen with its cork and with the felt cover still intact! Circa mid way into the diggin

​Here and there k98 ammo had been tossed around, some single casings and some full clips. The next signal hid under a few rocks. It was a

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".

I found bits from gebirgsjäger boots and several leather frogs for k98 bayonet scabbard and a few ammo pouches. Some weaker steel signals

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.

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

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

The familiar shape of the brim of a German helmet drew a nice line in the wet sand holding it in a firm grip. I freed it from the ground

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

Got my detector out, put it together and turned it on. I tried to ground balance it but it already signalled metal