Another "Dog-Tag" Day

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.

Oven for a barrack.

Brennzunder 24.

A piece of cloth survived all those years..

Parts from a karbid lamp.

Looks like some smoke charge,looks like the same diametre as a signal flare.

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.

Jar,belt and razor.

Interestingly the razor fits nicely into the side of the jar so I wonder if they belong together..

Horse harness.

Drinking sauce for Friday sorted..

A nice little bottle.

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.

..More bottles..

Klappspaten.

The two pics above: Puma close combat knife.

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 :)

Erkennungsmärken / EKM.

3 EKMs.

What a day!!

The top of a bunker oven.

None of the EKMs had markings.