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For once the weather was sunny, but it wasn`t that warm, only 13-13 Celsius. Enough to get the insects interested once I had worked up a sweat. The Nokta showed me a good signal and I believed I was off to a great start with an Edelweiss badge, but as soon as I got the small item out from the soil I saw it wasn`t the gebirgsjäger badge. It had similar size and shape,and was of same type of alloy, but the badge ( if that is what it is ) was in form of a pine branch with two pi

In the early days of the week I went out to cross a few spots off my list. On the end of a long day searching on the end of last season I had picked up a few interesting signals that I suspected could be dumping pits. I made a note of them in my notebook until now when I found the time to go back there. I was eager to check what could be hiding underground there so I wasn`t discouraged by the watery clouds hanging just above the roof of my car

Three meters away from the Blendax pit I struck upon another little garbage dump. This one was filled with broken glass from bottles and windows. Tons of it. But also a few other relics. It had the third rifle cleaning kit of the day, another gas mask canister, a very interesting bottle I have never seen before, a half rotted K98 ammo pouch and a pair of goggles. And a to me very interesting find.

Last summer we had localized a slope full of garbage. An old landfill with German stuff from the large camp on the bottom and gradually more modern stuff up until the early nineties had been dumped on the top. A slope one can read like a history book. It was our plan to open up a section of this slope, but as we were walking around with the detectors warming up on some single signals Baard discovered a large burn site full of relics just below the vegetation.

I spent much of my spare time there bunker crawling in some of the countless installations the germans littered the area with during their occupation, and since I have been interested in WW2 since childhood I guess it counts as a semi self biographical diorama.

I followed signals around the medal for the next hours and the result was pretty good. Several well preserved coins, Finnish,German and Norw

Here you can see the ghost of the regiment number on the shoulderboard. "112" - Gebirgs Artillerie Regiment 112.

I picked up a couple of signals on the way and found a shaving brush and two Dutch uniform buttons. Soviet POWs were sometimes issued

Some of the signals I just had to give up because of the ice, but after a couple of hours my pockets were heavy with smaller bits and I was

One of my work days this week lasted only a couple of hours, so when they let me go I went straight to the Luftwaffe dumping pit for a 6-7 h

One of the more interesting finds this afternoon was a sign from a vehicle, with an Edelweiss painted on. Not much of it was showing, but it

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

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

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

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

One of the next days I joined my friend Jimmy to search in his Gebirgsjäger camp. An enormous camp filled with signals in the ground.

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

I was looking at a Nordfront- or Lapplandfront Cross sticking out from the soil! The two last seasons I have found two of these awards

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

I switched on the detector and strolled towards the area where I had found the last helmet. It was a few signals along the way worth checkin