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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.
Battle Damaged Mess Kits & Canteens
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
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Apr 52 min read
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Erkennungsmarke - German ID Tags
I love finding erkennungsmarke as they are very interesting pieces of history. They have an iconic design and often have different styles of
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Mar 303 min read
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A Last Hurray & a Helmet in the Woods
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
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Oct 28, 20246 min read
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The Frost Is Back
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
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Oct 21, 20244 min read
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A Coinspill & Bits for Vehicles
The following signal was much better but was just a handfull of rifle ammo. 8mm Norwegian rounds for the Colt machinegun, but produced under
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Oct 7, 20245 min read
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Five Grams of Silver
A Danish coin came out of the ground together with a simple, unmarked silver ring, and a nametag made of some synthetic fibre.
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Sep 30, 20243 min read
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Lapplandschild Part 2 & 3
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?
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
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Another Iron Signal Paying Off
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
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Aug 19, 20244 min read
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A Badge for Baard
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,
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Jul 29, 20245 min read
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Medal Day
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
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Jul 22, 20245 min read
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Romantic Trench-Art
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
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Jul 8, 20245 min read
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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
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Jun 24, 20245 min read
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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
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Jun 17, 20244 min read
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Signs of the Gebirgsmarine
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
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Jun 9, 20243 min read
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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
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May 19, 20244 min read
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A Bonus Adventure Afternoon
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.
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Oct 22, 20235 min read
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Erkennungsmarken & Nordfrontkreuz
"Rifle casing, stripperclip or piece of wire.." my mind went, as I opened a small hole in the moss. "Nordfrontkreuz!!" Wow!
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Oct 6, 20234 min read
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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
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Sep 29, 20234 min read
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Continuing in the Luftwaffe Fieldhospital
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
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Sep 24, 20234 min read
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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
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Sep 19, 20233 min read
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