It has been raining hard the last few days but today it had cleared up and I hurried out to the forest after some food and coffee. I continued my search on the Gebirgsjäger capitulation site and had to check out a nice deep signal I had last time I was here. I swept the detector in front of me as I walked towards the place and every now and then it gave off signals I had to dig. The three first signals was very good but all turned out to be modern rubbish. When I reached the place where I had had the deep signal I had already dug out a bunch of war time rubbish, horseshoes and ice cleats, bolts, barbed wire and a pioneer axe.
I took a small rest before I began digging, having alittle to eat to get new energy and then started digging. Luckily it was sandy soil and no big roots covering the signal but still it was a bit of a job. Some 50-60 cm down I found the corner of something massive and corrugated and understood that it was a stove from a barrack. I ve dug enough of them earlier to be familiar with how they look. It took a while to free it from the soil and to get it out of the hole, luckily it wasn`t filled with sand, then it would have been a damn hard job to get it out. I ve found these stoves in two sizes and this was the larger version. Sadly it had no Org. Todt markings and both the doors were missing.
I searched the side walls of the hole and then found the bottom of it. It held mostly rusted trash and a lot of charcoal and ashes, but also a few items worth saving, like the lid of a mess kit, an ink pot and three medical bottles and a nice enamelled candle holder.
By now all the clouds had dispersed and the sun was shining and if I hadn`t had an appoinment for free dinner at my parents I would have stayed searching some more hours , but free dinner at Moms is a luxury one can`t refuse.
Tomorrow is reported to be nice and sunny and I have a new forest I am going to check out, a place I didn`t know about before and supposedly it was a German camp there.
So until then, be nice, and try stay muddy :)
I took a small rest before I began digging, having alittle to eat to get new energy and then started digging. Luckily it was sandy soil and no big roots covering the signal but still it was a bit of a job. Some 50-60 cm down I found the corner of something massive and corrugated and understood that it was a stove from a barrack. I ve dug enough of them earlier to be familiar with how they look. It took a while to free it from the soil and to get it out of the hole, luckily it wasn`t filled with sand, then it would have been a damn hard job to get it out. I ve found these stoves in two sizes and this was the larger version. Sadly it had no Org. Todt markings and both the doors were missing.
I searched the side walls of the hole and then found the bottom of it. It held mostly rusted trash and a lot of charcoal and ashes, but also a few items worth saving, like the lid of a mess kit, an ink pot and three medical bottles and a nice enamelled candle holder.
By now all the clouds had dispersed and the sun was shining and if I hadn`t had an appoinment for free dinner at my parents I would have stayed searching some more hours , but free dinner at Moms is a luxury one can`t refuse.
Tomorrow is reported to be nice and sunny and I have a new forest I am going to check out, a place I didn`t know about before and supposedly it was a German camp there.
So until then, be nice, and try stay muddy :)
Modern tent peg.
I dont know what the thing on the right is.
Horseshoe and ice cleat bolts.
Belt supporthook and a small D-ring.
Railroad bolt, pioneer axe and a thingamajig.
Autumn is approaching fast now.
It was alot of sand to dig to get it free.
After some work the stove came loose from the soil.
This metal plate was on the bottom of the pit.
The glassware found today.
Some cotton inside the jar.
The text reads: RD 50 Recist.
Tiny medical jar with contents.
From suspenders.
Shoepolish tins of glass and cardboard.
Vaselin and shoepolish tins.
Fork and mess kit lid.
A nice candleholder.
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