The next dumping pit haunted my mind, so early morning after coffee I fired up the old car and drove off to the site. Again I had luck with the weather which was mostly grey and sometimes interrupted by stormy winds and light rain. Ofcourse I didn`t notice much of it where I was half meter below the canopy digging my way to rust. Well, yet again it wasn`t that much metal to find, mostly bottles, glass and some bakelite, often much kooler than rusted stuff though.
​ At one point I heard some commotion next to the pit and stuck my head up half expecting a moose or a giraffe to bite it off. Two-three squirrels stared at me like in shock and ran up the tree in a cloud of bark. It is always great to meet those little creatures.
I had some stuff to do at home today so after filling back the pit and checking a couple of interesting looking depressions in the ground I strolled back to the car. Although I hadn`t been digging for more than three hours I was a bit soaked and with the +5 degree Celsius the Norwegian summer dished out today the heater in the car almost made me fall asleep.

This morning I had doubts about going to the forest when I saw the dark sky, but I found my way out there in the end anyway. On my map I ve marked several spots to dig but I began with roaming around trying my luck with the Fisher and at the same time make a walk-through of a section of the woods I haven`t been in yet. I spent an hour doing that and I had absolutely no signals, could not see any signs of old roads, dug outs or barracks anywhere so I walked back towards one of the pins on the map. As I approached the dumping pit I wanted to dig, the Fisher gave off a great signal next to a tree. I dug alittle bit and found the corner of something big and as I got more of the sand away I saw what it was, a german field radio!! Wow, that was a fun find! It was in a bit shitty condition though but I was all a big smile. Inspired I strolled around alittle bit picking up rubbish here and there and when I got tired of not finding anymore radios I went to the dumping pit.
The next couple of hours I dug out a little mountain of bottles; drinking bottles, small perfume and medical bottles and several nice glass jars. Very little metal was down there really, some rotted Juwel burners, wires and cans. Some cutlery in nice condition and lots of bakelite. Bakelite cups , lids, toothbrushes and two bakelite lamps I ve never seen before. I dug up a couple of 10 pfennig coins, a big glass ashtray and two schnapps glasses, one melted and one perfect. A few leather bits hid under some bottles, a pair of thick leather mittens, ancle boots and a pair of leather suspenders. 
Finally the pit was empty and as I filled it back I checked over the spoils for any treasures I lost while digging it out. Perfect timing to go home for dinner and I was soaked and partly consumed by mosqitoes and gnats. 
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As always Im up early in the morning, today even before Girlfriend, when she got up to get ready for work I was already in the kitchen with coffee and digger gear. Today I was going back to the dumping pit I started on Friday to complete it. The weather was shifting between sunny and heavy rain and I was soaking wet before I found back to the pit. I spent a few hours digging and sifting through the soil, bits of glass and pieces of rust. Nothing spectacular found today but still the backpack got filled up with a few relics when I closed up the dumping pit. I didn`t feel like starting another ditch this afternoon but I strolled around the woods a while marking a few more potential dumping pits on the map for another day:)

A few of todays finds cleaned up :

Yesterday I went out alone to another new site where I knew it had been a small WH camp. The camp had been for soldiers protecting a rivercrossing entering a valley of importance so I didn`t expect to find much,,Wow, was I wrong. As soon as I stepped foot into the forest I saw German stuff poking out from depressions in the ground. I left those alone as I wanted to try to get an overview of the forest first. The detector led me to dumping pit after dumping pit. One or two pits on the edge of the forest held things of the modern type but inside the forest it was full of German stuff. I dug three small burn pits where I found a ton of 7.92 casings, some coins, buttons and the usual stuff, and marked several others off on the map to dig another day. I had walked through roughly 1/4th of the area when I decided to spend the rest of the day digging out a full pit as my backpack was still light. 
The pit I chose turned out to be big,,full of broken bottles and glass and unidentifiable rust but it was lots of good rust there too. I kept digging until the sky opened up a pouring which I couldn`t ignore even if I wanted too, I was soaking wet and the pit turned into mud so I decided it was time to call it a day. I had filled the bag and pockets to the brims and almost half the pit is still waiting to be completed which I hope to do tomorrow. I found a few items Im wondering what is so if any of you guys know them please inform me :)

Have a great Solstice weekend and stay dirty my friends :)

​Stuff just laying on the surface is always a good sign.

Two days ago me and the Girlfriend went for a scouting mission to a forest in the neighbourhood. We prepared ourselves and went out there relatively early and found a nice place to park the car. The first couple of hours we roamed around trying to find the site, but we had to confer with a couple of maps before we half eaten by mosquitoes found our way through the bushes and marshes to the correct plateau in the forest. Now finally the detector picked up something else than modern garbage, a piece of shell fragment from either the fighting in 1940 or from the dismantling of the massive ammo depot that the Germans had built here between the pines. Next we spotted the first of many earthen bunkers covering the area and went to work. The bunkers seemed to have been cleaned up pretty well, but we found traces from the occupants . We found  shovels, heaps of k98 ammo, partly rotted away leather equipment and ofcourse some modern plastic training ammo. In one bunker we found Brennzunders which we wisely left alone as we like to have our fingers intact.
While I was sweating and waving mosquitoes away the Girlfriend found a sunny spot on the edge of the bunker, having lunch and enjoying the view. As the afternoon approached and there was little blood left in us for the bugs to feed on, we stumbled across two-three huge pits filled with leftovers of 7.5 cm Pak ammo containers where we will spend more time in the coming weeks... so stay tuned ;)

Back home after a successful expedition to Latvia and the perfect weather here North invited for a trip to the woods. I had located a forest where it supposedly had been a larger Wehrmacht camp during the war, and after the war the site had as many former German sites been used by Nato. The place has undergone some changes since the war but I hoped to find some proof of its history. 
I walked the faintly visible old road which I had seen on the maps and expected to approach a couple of old Nato barracks but found a big old German barrack, probably it was a garage at some point. It was locked off so I didn`t make any effort to go inside, I prefer having the owners permission for that as it had a new tractor road leading up to it so it is clearly in use. Around it I found a few German Kraftstoff barrells and a WH axe. Much of the signals I had from the detector was old Nato training ammo and foil from rations and almost no signs of German activity. I crossed the road and found another barrack and behind it was a little slope where the place Im searching might be. Seems the forest floor hid a big dumpingsite. Relics poking out from under the grass and I made a little test dig to make sure its worth going back here for some more intensive digging :)