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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.

Inka`s Pharmacy & Medicinal Depot

We saw more M24 and M39 grenade boxes and racks just laying on the surface, so we collected the nice looking ones.

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Jul 29, 20235 min read

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Spectacular Finds

I dont think any of us were prepared for what lay ahead. Under the layer of branches and vegetation were lots of these boxes,

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Jul 19, 20234 min read

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Dude, Where`s My Phone ?

Tom strolled out to the slope in front of us, found a signal, removed a little bit of moss and soil, and lifted up an Edelweiss

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Jul 3, 20233 min read

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Soil Searching

Another day with similar weather I took a stroll around one of the many Gebirgsjäger camps. This camp has been visited by many detectorists

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Jul 1, 20233 min read

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Ditch Diggers

I reached the relic-layer after some fighting with the elements, but when the last rock were out of the way I could pry loose a nice MG

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Jun 26, 20233 min read

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Seasons First Adventure Afternoon

I walked half kilometer on the outside of the camp area to check if there could be some undiscovered spots full of signals for us to hunt

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Jun 19, 20233 min read

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A New Digging Season

I spent some awesome hours roaming around in a gebirgsjäger camp looking for treasures and good rust. Of course I knew that only the top

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May 23, 20233 min read

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Jimmy & Inka`s Adventure Afternoon

We got the coil out of the ditch and could continue digging. Now I had a little luck and pulled out a pipe which I saw was a Panzerfaust 30

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Oct 17, 20226 min read

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Iron Cross

I opened my hand and showed him an Iron Cross! It was a bit caked in muck, but it was really an Iron Cross that had found its way into

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Sep 19, 20224 min read

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Helmet & Other Goodies

A small square piece of metal met with the tip of my bayonet. I gave it a rub against the clean back of my glove and saw the word "Petsamo".

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Sep 1, 20224 min read

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Der Knüppel

This weekend I searched on an interesting piece of land. It is a bit high up in the terrain where the Germans constructed a small camp

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Aug 22, 20224 min read

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Twelve Shades of Zink

Around the barrack he had found a couple of coins. A Norwegian one and a beautiful Finnish 5 Markkaa. After walking around for a while we

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Jul 19, 20226 min read

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A Long Winter is Over

I spent the week checking out a few places that has come up during research, to check them out if there could have been any wartime activity

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May 22, 20224 min read

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Spring in November

t was only patches of snow left in the forest and even if the ground wasn`t completely thawed it was easy enough to dig. Of course it didn`t

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Nov 6, 20213 min read

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Three Helmets Thursday

Near one of the barracks it should be a small dumping pit I had started once, and I went to try find it. As has happened many times before

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Oct 8, 20214 min read

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Fishing Lures and a Panzer Skull

Quite near to the dumping pit I found a small hoard of coins, Norwegian ones ranging from 1933 to 1942. A T.Mi.Z.35 fuze missing its top

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Sep 28, 20213 min read

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Notek & Tetra

Next to it was two gasmask containers, one had the lid open, but the mask looks to be ok, the other one was closed but also have the mask

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Sep 8, 20214 min read

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Soldier Bling & Trench-art

I thought it could be one of those Lapplandfront medals so it got my pulse up a little. I dug more of the item free and then I saw it was a

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Aug 30, 20215 min read

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Porcelain & Trench-Art

And then I looked at the thing. It was a trench-art box!! Wow! I placed it in the relic pile and went back to the porcelain.

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Aug 24, 20214 min read

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Gorgets & Cyanide

Three gorgets! One of them was of a poor aluminum alloy and completely rotted. The two others were made of thin sheet metal and not in great

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Aug 20, 20213 min read

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