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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.

I thought I should continue a bit with the "battle damage" theme and show you my collection of canteens and mess kits picked up from

I love finding erkennungsmarke as they are very interesting pieces of history. They have an iconic design and often have different styles of

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 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

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

A Danish coin came out of the ground together with a simple, unmarked silver ring, and a nametag made of some synthetic fibre.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

I worked along the edge of it and freed a small shovel and a knife, a rotten field torch and a couple of coins. Except a small porcelain jar

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

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.

"Rifle casing, stripperclip or piece of wire.." my mind went, as I opened a small hole in the moss. "Nordfrontkreuz!!" Wow!

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