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A Big Dumping Pit

6/29/2016

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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:)
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The only piece of metal visible on the surface of the dumping pit.Part of cast iron oven.
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Bottles and food tins.
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Lots of metal deep in the ground.
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Part of a large boiler or oven.It took a bit of struggle to get it out.
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A huge lid from a boiler.It measures a bit more than a metre across.
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Part of a wooden sign. The letters "Sy" painted in red makes me believe it is the sign from the medic barrack, "Sykehus"/"Sykebrakke".
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Ring made from a german coin.
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The back part of a german lamp.
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The glass from a german karbid lamp.
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Stars cut from alu discs.
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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.
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Mess kit.
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Handle for a mess kit.
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Some of the metal dug out from the pit.
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Still lots more down there.
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