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Another "Dog-Tag" Day

9/15/2016

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Latley it has been raining on and off but in the dry spells I ve been quick to get out to the forest. Still searching the new permission and I made a stroll around on the capitulation site as well.
On the first place I am digging out what looks like a large dumping ditch, it is heavy clay and lots of wires makes it hard to dig there. I haven`t found anything else than some bottles and a few tools and unknown parts between smashed and rotted away food tins.
I ve been searching "single signals" around there as well, but still nothing interesting yet apart from a few detonators, which I dug down deep. Well,one of those signals was interesting,at least at first, it was a large strong iron signal. When I opened up the soil I understood it was a large item and as I found two corners I thought it could be a crate or a box of some sort. It took some digging before I realised it was an oven of the type often used in barracks, quite large and for sure heavy to dig out.
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Oven for a barrack.
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Brennzunder 24.
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A piece of cloth survived all those years..
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Parts from a karbid lamp.
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Looks like some smoke charge,looks like the same diametre as a signal flare.
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Small porcelain jar.
I had a bit more luck on the capitulation site. I found a nice little dumping pit after searching a while. I could see a small ditch filled with old branches. The Fisher gave up some mixed signals so I started digging. Charcoal and broken glass and some food tins came out of the ground first, and then some large springs,probably from a matress or a chair. I spent an hour on it and had in the end a little collection of bottles and jars and a small mountain of porcelain balls from the m24 grenades,some leather belts and harness and a razor.
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Jar,belt and razor.
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Interestingly the razor fits nicely into the side of the jar so I wonder if they belong together..
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Horse harness.
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Drinking sauce for Friday sorted..
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A nice little bottle.
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Ignitor cord porcelain balls for the German "stick"grenade.
I followed the ditch,digging every signal. a few meters was empty or had only wire and barbed wire but soon I found another cluster of relics. It wasn`t so much metal time had treated very well, but it was a few cool finds in the pit. A shovel,or Klappspaten as the Germans would call it, and a Puma close combat knife was worth rescuing from further decay. And ofcourse more bottles,,I could start a brewery soon I think.
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..More bottles..
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Klappspaten.
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The two pics above: Puma close combat knife.
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Uniform button.
Later I walked into a small clearing in the forest and the Fisher screamed out good signals everywhere. I just had to put my backpack somewhere and start checking signals. -Wow, first one was a Erkennungsmärke,,and next to it another one! I got out the pin pointer and it showed me where the goods was. In less than a minute I had four of them. They had no stamps so they had never been issued. 
I spent a few hours checking the place and in the end I had found 20 whole Erkennungsmärken, two halfs and one quarter piece,all looked to be unissued. In the search I also found the top of a bunker oven, but not the lid, so I need to go back and search more here. Tomorrow :)
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Erkennungsmärken / EKM.
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3 EKMs.
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What a day!!
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The top of a bunker oven.
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None of the EKMs had markings.
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2 Comments
Christopher Coxon
9/15/2016 11:54:07 pm

You had a seriously good day didnt you :) will you be selling some of the blank dog tags and M24 Knopfe? I'd be interested in entering into negotiations :)

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inka
9/16/2016 02:59:35 am

It was a great day yes:D Yes,I ll be selling some of it.The tags are all cleaned up now and will do the M24 knopfe today after digging:)

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