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We went to the far end of the pile and began digging in underneath the metal mountain. Almost instantly Jimmy began pulling out parts from MG34s and 42s. The parts were all in very good condition. I pulled on a rod sticking out from the jumble and it was a perfectly preserved wehrmacht grounding rod.

As I was searching alongside a pathway going back towards my car the Nokta gave off an iffy signal below a crooked tree. Usually I wouldn`t dig on such a weak and uncertain signal, but I still had time and I hadn`t really found anything interesting, so I decided to try something. My car was only fifty meters away so I ran over and grabbed the Fisher to sweep that across.

Close to the old camp road I saw a dug out and went to check around it. Below two old pines the detector picked up strong signals. There was a faint sign after a short ditch in the terrain and signals from the whole lenght. I cut open the moss and saw charcoals and soot and my bayonet poked into some metal. I flicked the item loose and saw the shape of it. I held my breath.

A little bit away from the wetness I got a whole mass of signals from a small patch under a tree. Here I dug up nine or ten german coins, a leather pouch they probably had been kept in, an Eastern Front medal and several cream tubes! Together with these things was also a small but very interesting piece.

The fort was operational in 1941 and armed with four french 10.5 cm guns, K331 (f), with a range up to 12000 meter, plus 2 cm Flak guns, MGs, mortars, stationary flamethrowers and a wide minefield.

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?

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

A little bit later luck struk again when I checked a signal under a root of a big old tree. I thought it was a DP27 magazine but it was the

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

we were both sure it was a German plate, but were disappointed when I turned it around and it only had a small Norwegian producer mark.

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

Another bakelite part to come out of the sandy soil was the drinking cup from a soldiers canteen, and it even had initials engraved on

One of the more interesting finds this afternoon was a sign from a vehicle, with an Edelweiss painted on. Not much of it was showing, but it

The bunkers are not far from each other, and some of them were flooded. There are also few smaller stone constructions on the plateau. I was

It became a long digging session and when I decided to stretch my legs I had made a decent pile of relics on the edge of the ditch.

We began in the bottom of a valley and our goal was a small section of the German defence system called the "Lyngen Line".

We strolled off between the trees and soon I was busy removing soil and rocks and to try not break any of the fragile ampoules

MKB (Marine Küsten Batterie) 3/512 Lyngen is situated at Spåkenes in the Lyngenfjord in Northern Norway. It was operational in February 1942

the local municipality had built a small museum , and restored ca 1200 meter of the German defensive line "The Sturmbock Stellung".