Shortly after breakfast and coffee I headed back out to the ditch Im searching through, dead certain today would be the day the first shovel in would give me a large dump of helmets, ofcourse that was a bit optimistic.
The first half hour searching the edges of the ditch yielded nothing other than the usual trash, but suddenly I hit a belt of goodies. Just small bits, but the relic pile grew steadily. It was fewer coins today, only two,a Norwegian and a Finnish one. But I found a k98 cleaning kit and a field torch, they ll both go into a bath of oxalic acid as soon as I get some more. Also the Nivea products and Esbit burners came out of the ground in a steady pace together with hundreds of wine and beer bottles. Some bits of ammo pouches stuck out from the soil and as I pulled it a Erkennungsmärke fell out, that was a nice surprise.
The last bit of the edge I had to check sort of led into a new ditch, half meter wide and going away from the dumping pit. For two hours I followed it, digging nothing but rusted cans and bottles, and I got really bored with it and decided to leave it for another day and rather start the un-dug newly discovered pit next to the one I ve been digging these days.

I cleared away branches and vegetation and could see that it definately was a dumping pit. Bits of metal and bottles poked up from the ground, so I just went to work. It was full of metal under the soil, some large bits, parts of ovens, a fire extinguisher, pipes and whatnot. Then I had this small but heavy lump in my hand, the handle of a pistol,, ofcourse it couldn`t have been a complete one,,I was furious! Na,just joking,I was ofcourse overjoyed with this bit as I ve never found something like it here. Next I found a folded up Erkennungsmärke, a small broke bakelite box and part of a Schu-Mine 42. I had cleared the edge and the wall in front of me and began digging down. The soil here was still very wet from the melted snow, and it was a layer of rocks and barbed wire, I decided to continue along the edge instead and let the ground dry up some more before digging down. 
Now I found parts of a field radio and a broken entrenching tool and 4 or 5 batteries with the paper labels still relativel intact. As I tried to remove them from the soil I discovered they were frozen stuck, so the sunny days better keep coming now so this can thaw. Next to the batteries but a bit higher up on the edge I noticed a corner of what could be a box or crate so I dug around it, freeing it quite easily. It was a Mg ammo box with most of the paint intact. It seems to be filled with frozen mud as it is kind of expanded a bit, and the carrying handle was missing, but it ll be interesting opening this one up to see if there is only mud inside it.
Now it was getting late and I was starving so I gathered up my stuff, cleaned up after me and went back home to do some relic cleaning.
​Lets hope the weather keeps delivering sun and I can get back out digging tomorrow.

After work today I went directly to the dumping ditch and began seraching for treasures. It was sunny and warm so the chilly soil was pleasant to work in. Still digging the edges of the ditch and it is a 10-20 cm thick layer of rust just below the surface going a half meter or so away from the ditch. The first item I found between cans, bottles and bottle shards was a M24 head. I was amazed. I ve found several of these in Latvia but its a first for me here, and I quickly saw that it was empty and safe to bring home. I didn`t find more heads but next to it was a nice Rosodont bakelite box and two Doramad tubes, also worth saving.

​I moved up along the edge and filled back the already dug area with the rust and bottles, covering it with a good thick layer of soil and placed the top bits with vegetation back in place. More relics came out together with the junk and I kept finding coins, 6 of them in the end. Two German, two Finnish and two in such bad condition it is impossible to tell.
​ I took out some soil and felt a square solid bit, knocked some dirt of it and there was a rusted Heer belt buckle, I dont find those either too often so it was placed in the worth-saving pile.
In the last shovel I took before calling it quits for the day I found a little shotglass made from a signal flare,joy.
Back home I had dinner and filled a bucket with water and went to the porch to have a beer and clean some of todays finds.
So now it is time for a little rest and then I ll probably be back out digging tomorrow.

Some of the cleaned finds:

Today I woke up to a wonderful blue sky and it actually felt like spring finally has arrived with full force. I found my digger clothes and stuck my head in the coffee pot for half an hour before heading out to the forest. A good place to start the forest season was the spot I had to quit in mid October when frost and winter came. During the war the patch of forest was a part of a large Wehrmacht camp and Gebirgsjäger units that had fought on the Finland/Murmansk front capitulated here. In October I had been digging out a large dumping pit and decided to metaldetect my way there and finish it up.
I had a couple of interesting signals on my stroll towards the pit, but only one of them was a relic worth saving, a knife that looks sort of "home-made" and it lay together with a small rusted pocket knife.

When I reached the dumping pit I discovered that the half I havent dug yet had a large pool of water from the melted snow, so I decided to just check around the edges and tidy up what I already had dug. Doing this I soon discovered the ditch continued in one of the corners I thought I had cleared,and it sort of led into a larger ditch I hadnt seen last year because of all the vegetation. This might become a interesting summer for sure!
The soil was packed full of rust and bottles and junk, but in between was the odd relic worth rescuing from further decay. At one point I found what looked like a long Brennzunder, but moments later I realized the part belongs to a karbid lamp.
I had put my backpack a few meters away, on the other side of a fence. To reach it I grabbed one of the wires in the fence, and I felt a jolt going through my hand and arm! -Huh? Fences isn`t supposed to hurt? I thought , and with all my blondness I had to investigate it closer by grabbing it with both hands, and damn the shock it gave me, I couldnt even let it go! Ofcourse it was an electrical fence because of the farmers livestock.Who would have thunk it.. :D
Hours went by digging and by the time I had to leave I hadnt found much good stuff,just a few items really, but the hopes for whats to find next is bigger, and I ll be back there after work tomorrow.