A long day digging is over and I didn`t get half way through the dumping pit. Before lunch I had moved from the workbench and into the mossie filled forest armed with shovel,food,pinpointer and bug spray. In late November I had located a large dumping pit in a Heer camp so I didn`t bother bringing the metal detector this time. It took me a few minutes to find back to the pit as everything is unrecognisable now since the vegetation is in full bloom, but when I found it I just dove in and began working. I chose one of the corners and opened it up. The first 30-40 cm was nothing but rocks and soil but when I had removed that metal started showing, and no small bits of metal. I fought two rather large iron cast ovens and a huge iron boiler of some sort. These bits was heavy and difficult to get out and under them was more large bits and also lots of parts from a concrete oven. I dug maybe a bit less than half the pit in 6 hours and there is lots left. I still have not found the bottom of it so by the looks of it I have some days of work ahead.
Despite the amount of metal dug out today,must be some 2-250kg in total I bet, I didn`t have much interesting finds yet. A bunch of bottles and some food tins,lamp parts,wires and who-know-whats was between the heavy oven bits. Three little finds was very interesting though. Two small alu discs that probably liberated Red Army soldiers had cut stars from and a small ring made from a german coin, pretty happy with those, and it will be very interesting to see if there is some other treasures down there:)
Despite the amount of metal dug out today,must be some 2-250kg in total I bet, I didn`t have much interesting finds yet. A bunch of bottles and some food tins,lamp parts,wires and who-know-whats was between the heavy oven bits. Three little finds was very interesting though. Two small alu discs that probably liberated Red Army soldiers had cut stars from and a small ring made from a german coin, pretty happy with those, and it will be very interesting to see if there is some other treasures down there:)
The only piece of metal visible on the surface of the dumping pit.Part of cast iron oven.
Bottles and food tins.
Lots of metal deep in the ground.
Part of a large boiler or oven.It took a bit of struggle to get it out.
A huge lid from a boiler.It measures a bit more than a metre across.
Part of a wooden sign. The letters "Sy" painted in red makes me believe it is the sign from the medic barrack, "Sykehus"/"Sykebrakke".
Ring made from a german coin.
The back part of a german lamp.
The glass from a german karbid lamp.
Stars cut from alu discs.
Tomorrow I ll get out the crate or box you see the corner of there, should be fun as it is filled with water and have some large iron pieces laying across it.
Mess kit.
Handle for a mess kit.
Some of the metal dug out from the pit.
Still lots more down there.
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