This morning it was a few degrees colder than the last days. I also saw fresh snow on the mountain tops. Not a minute to loose so I threw my equipment in the back of the car and rushed to the forests. I started in a patch of forest I never searched before. There was some British trenches and there had been a small skirmish around them in the invasion days of May 1940. I found the positions and searched them and the forest thoroughly. Not one single signal. I wondered a few times if my detector had broken down again, but checking it prooved it was working. In the very last dug out I searched I had two signals, a sink bucket and a shovel.
I still had a few hours to go before dusk so I found back to the car and drove to the large area where it had been a Org.Todt/WH camp with stables and workshops, which I have searched many times. At the first sweep with the Fisher I had a mixed signal and I could see rust sticking out of the ground, had to be a dumping pit I thought. And right I was. The area had to look like a lunar landscape in the autumn of 1945 when they razed and bulldozed the camp. I have lost count of how many dumping pits I ve found here.
It wasn`t a large pit, but I spent a couple of hours on it before it was empty. For once there were no bottles in it, just one broken, but still I dug carefully as you never know when you get your hand sliced. There was a lot of buckles from horse equipment, some tools, a karbid lamp and two larger parts which turned out to be parts for a Gebirgsjager pack saddle, I thought they were RSO sprockets when I saw the first glimpse of them. A few forks and a knife which might be a Puma close combat knife. Also two axe heads, one standard and one pioneer axe.
As dusk fell I had completed the pit and with a heavy bag I walked the few meters back to the car and drove home :)
It wasn`t a large pit, but I spent a couple of hours on it before it was empty. For once there were no bottles in it, just one broken, but still I dug carefully as you never know when you get your hand sliced. There was a lot of buckles from horse equipment, some tools, a karbid lamp and two larger parts which turned out to be parts for a Gebirgsjager pack saddle, I thought they were RSO sprockets when I saw the first glimpse of them. A few forks and a knife which might be a Puma close combat knife. Also two axe heads, one standard and one pioneer axe.
As dusk fell I had completed the pit and with a heavy bag I walked the few meters back to the car and drove home :)
It is always nice to find tent pegs:)
A shaving brush.
Buckles and D-rings.
A small aluminium cup.
Ice cleats for horseshoes.
Axe heads.
Karbid lamp.
Puma knife.
Frames for a Gebirgsjager pack saddle.
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