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Liberated Soviet prisoners erected a beautiful wooden entry portal to the gravesite. In 1952 the bodies were exhumed yet again, and moved to a large cemetery on Tjøtta further to the south, during what became known as Operation Asphalt and the gravesite erased.

I had several days off work this week and spent the first around the site where I found the Close Combat Clasp last week.

The finds were worse. Rifle casings, most often rotted steel casings, and food tins. We searched a spot for a while where we had a tiny bit more luck, finding uniform buttons and coins. There a silver topped salt shaker also came out of the soggy mud.

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.

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.