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Signals everywhere. Crate parts, creamtubes and food tins seemed to litter the place, but the best find I had before my allotted time for detecting was up I spotted with my eyes even before the detector came near it. A metal pipe stuck out from the ground near the edge of the marsh. I grabbed it and pulled it straight out. A rifle!

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.

At some point I decided I wanted to build a collection of pegs, and today I have a bit more than thirty with different markings. Doublets I have traded, given away or sold. Most of them were found by myself in Norway or Kurland, Latvia, while a couple were gifted to me by friends searching the old battlefields in Karelia, Russia.

The tools used to make trench art depended on what the maker could get access to, and would range from a primitive home made engraving pen to a full metal workshop.

On my digs I am often finding ashtrays and lighters, and now and then pipes and cigarett mouthpieces. Naturally I like the trench-art