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A Couple of Grenade Parts

7/27/2017

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It has been a warm week, and I ve been at work so haven`t had much time for digging, but having today and tomorrow off so time will be spent in the forest. I managed to talk my girlfriend into joining me for a mini expedition and we went to a place where it during the war was a Org.Todt stable and workshop, and in 1945 Gebirgsjäger units capitulated there. Well,thruth be told, she is much more of an outdoor person than me, so she actually wanted to join. 
We strolled into the forest and ofcourse I wanted to impress her finding some good stuff, but every signal I picked up with the Fisher to begin with was nails,wire bits, horseshoes and horseshoe ice cleats. But I ve been digging here lots before so I took direction towards the area I knew would hold dumping pits.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Checking a signal.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Horseshoe and icecleats.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Bottle pit.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
The first two dumping pits we dug was only rubbish, food tins and bottles, quite boring stuff really, but under a ton of fallen trees and branches I got a very interesting signal and after alittle work the old wood was removed and I opened up the forest floor. It was definately a interesting pit, a few food tins and lots of broken bottles lay in the top layer but when that was removed some good items started popping out. Several signal flares, porcelain jars, toothbrushes and hygiene articles got pulled out from the soil, some silver cutlery in great condition, k98 cleaning kits, bunker candles and tent pegs, and soon there was a growing pile of relics.
On the bottom of the pit was a layer of organic stuff, some animal bones, rotting uniform bits and leather parts from boots and ammo pouches. I kept scraping away the soil and I saw something made of aluminium, I didn`t dare to hope, but when I had removed enough sol I saw it was a aluminium Heer buckle!! I was overjoyed :)
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Signal flares.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Bunker candle.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Toothbrushes.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Tent pegs.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Skin cream jars.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Deep in the rabbit hole like Alice.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
A nice silver spoon that saw daylight again.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Alu Heer buckle.
After a while of digging the hole bigger I realized I was in the middle of a long and deep ditch, so there will be several days digging this for sure. Hours had passed and the relic pile had grown bigger. A bunch of small medic bottles were found, an ignitor for mine, a steel Heer buckle with the leather support tab still intact and then I suddenly spotted another aluminium item. It was a Erkennungsmärke! Again I was jumping of joy! 
It was late in the afternoon by now and we decided to just clean up the side walls and then found a large pocket of M24 stick grenade parts. Hundreds of them. Both my backpacks was filled to the breaking point in no time, so it was definately time to call it quits for the day. The hole was filled back and we decided to continue tomorrow morning so it ll be an early evening tonight. Hopefully there will be more interesting finds in this ditch.
Stay muddy and keep smiling :)
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Steel buckle.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Ignitor.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Small bottles, perfume and medical.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Relic heaven.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
EKM.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
2/ Inf.Ers.Btl. 36
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Davaj!!
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Tons of M24 parts.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
A bit of stuff to clean come stormy and rainy days.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
All the flares that we found today.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
Found lots of k98 muzzle caps as well.
hobbyhistorica ww2 fisher f5 gebirgsjäger capitulation site ww2 metal detecting battlefield recovery
The buckle lightly cleaned.
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