The last two days I ve been out searching I found nothing interesting at all, so I really didn`t have big hopes for today when I went out after work. I drove to a Gebirgsjäger / Heer camp but when I saw the forest was full of berry pickers I decided to not mingle with them and went to the Gebirgsjägercapitulation site instead.
I walked to the ditch where it was a lot of barrel bands and dug it, but it was only barrel bands and some horse shoes there. I strolled further into the forest and the Fisher picked up signals here and there, a few uniform buttons, lots of Zeltbahn rings and buttons and a few railroad bolts was all that the relic gods threw my way. I came to a small clearing and in the middle of it was a weak but good signal. Under the moss was just sand so it was easy to dig it. Almost a meter down I found a medic bottle, a rusted food tin, a shoepolish tin and a cut down shell casing, a 37mm I think, made into an ashtray, nothing else was down there. I filled it back and swept the detector in the area around the hole and it picked up several strong and interesting signals, so it was nothing to do but dig them all. The first few was a some K98 casings and a stripper clip and a few bits of wire. The next one though was very nice,a 20mm casing made into a shotglass! The pinpointer told me it was something more under the moss, and it was a second shotglass!!
I walked to the ditch where it was a lot of barrel bands and dug it, but it was only barrel bands and some horse shoes there. I strolled further into the forest and the Fisher picked up signals here and there, a few uniform buttons, lots of Zeltbahn rings and buttons and a few railroad bolts was all that the relic gods threw my way. I came to a small clearing and in the middle of it was a weak but good signal. Under the moss was just sand so it was easy to dig it. Almost a meter down I found a medic bottle, a rusted food tin, a shoepolish tin and a cut down shell casing, a 37mm I think, made into an ashtray, nothing else was down there. I filled it back and swept the detector in the area around the hole and it picked up several strong and interesting signals, so it was nothing to do but dig them all. The first few was a some K98 casings and a stripper clip and a few bits of wire. The next one though was very nice,a 20mm casing made into a shotglass! The pinpointer told me it was something more under the moss, and it was a second shotglass!!
Rings from horse harness and a railroad bolt.
Tunic buttons.
Porcelain jar which I filled with Zeltbahn buttons and rings, and a medic bottle.
Losantin tablet box, shoepolish jar, a medical cream tube and two unidentified bits.
K98 stripper clip, a 7.62 casing ,7.92 bullet and a live 7.92 Mauser round.
Mauser bullet.
A cut down casing, an ashtray prehaps:)
I was thrilled to have found these shotglass casings as they are personal items and I collect them. I did another sweep with the Fisher and 40 cm away it was another good hit. It was a third shotglass! I had a whole set now. Amazing! The next signal I dug was also just a few centimeter away. Just below the moss I saw a jagged edge and knew instantly what it was and my grin became even wider. I carefully got it loose from some tiny roots and held a German War Merit award in my hand! It was in quite good condition too and will look lovely when cleaned up.
A real nice cluster of good items, so I kept searching the area real well but the only other bits I found was some nails and a large axe head. It had gotten late in the afternoon and I had to get back home, but Thursday I ll continue in this patch of the forest for sure, who knows what else is below the forest floor:)
Stay dirty my friends, and Keep Smiling:)
A real nice cluster of good items, so I kept searching the area real well but the only other bits I found was some nails and a large axe head. It had gotten late in the afternoon and I had to get back home, but Thursday I ll continue in this patch of the forest for sure, who knows what else is below the forest floor:)
Stay dirty my friends, and Keep Smiling:)
20mm FlaK casing made into shotglass.
A third Shotglass casing!!
Finding the award was extremely fun.
It looks like it ll clean up nicely.
Four great finds today.
When I was about to grab my bag and leave I noticed this one sitting on iit, so ofcourse I just had to ditch it and leave it. Its the spiders bag now..
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