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A few days before we had made a longer trek to another camp, and there we actually spotted a moose when we were leaving the site. Not more than 40-50 meter from the forest road something caught my attention, and as I stared in between the trees I suddenly saw it clearly. A large moose.

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.

Over the years I have collected a small pile of such tags which were attached to the soldiers backpack. All of them looks to be "field made"

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?

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

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

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

In one end of it I dug till I found the top of what I think is a large steel stove. The metal looks perfectly preserved and it is standing

The well started to dry out but I was still fighting one of the last relics loose from a rock holding it tight. A gasmask canister, and

When I decided it was enough for today I sifted through the spoils and found a small trench-art piece, a brass piece with the unit insignia

Last week I found an unusual "Trench-art" item, a Football! Found in a dumping pit in a Gebirgsjäger camp

when I worked at the garbage dump I one morning rescued a POW art wooden box from the container, and they must have been made by the same

We spent some time checking signals which mostly were nails and the usual rubbish before we found a more interesting corner of the camp.