Finally I managed to get out there with my metal detector! It has been a loong time , almost got no expeditions done all season,,but now , with King Winter knocking on the door here in Ultima Thule I had no time to waste. Even Girlfriend had become worried she would have listen to me whine all winter if I didn`t get some digging done. I have , as you might know , spent most of the summer finding a new house and moving to a new place. Having then lost access to the forests I know , it was only one place to start over again ; in the books , articles , maps and ofcourse the internet. The last weeks I ve spent doing research and have come up with a list that will keep me busy the next couple of years. I ve already visited a few atlantikwall fortifications,cemeteries and memorials but yesterday the trip went to a forest where it should be some positions and some foundations of barracks according to my information.
Weather was good and the forest floor full of blueberries so I strolled happily away. Almost right away the Fisher started beeping , and familiar things was uncovered from under the moss and soil. Food tins , cans , nails and a few war time batteries. I went down a little slope to a flatter part of the hillside and the detector gave signals everywhere , and I didn`t need to dig to know what it was. Almost every step I took I could feel and hear it , and see it poke through the forest floor , barbed wires , masses of it. It was a whole belt of it several meters wide and 100-150 meter long , maybe a `Flanderzaun`- "Flandrian fence", and on the end I found a position. I made a loop and searched my way back to the car but didn`t find much more than a few coils more of barbed wire and a few of the metal bars it had been attached to. Almost by the car , in a thicket of young trees and sapplings I encountered a gun emplacement , overgrown and destroyed , but with a large bunker dug down next to it. I couldn`t find the entrance at first but then I found it , almost closed by the soil and vegetation , and it looks like its been like that for a long time... Maybe there will be a trip back there one of the next days I think :D
Weather was good and the forest floor full of blueberries so I strolled happily away. Almost right away the Fisher started beeping , and familiar things was uncovered from under the moss and soil. Food tins , cans , nails and a few war time batteries. I went down a little slope to a flatter part of the hillside and the detector gave signals everywhere , and I didn`t need to dig to know what it was. Almost every step I took I could feel and hear it , and see it poke through the forest floor , barbed wires , masses of it. It was a whole belt of it several meters wide and 100-150 meter long , maybe a `Flanderzaun`- "Flandrian fence", and on the end I found a position. I made a loop and searched my way back to the car but didn`t find much more than a few coils more of barbed wire and a few of the metal bars it had been attached to. Almost by the car , in a thicket of young trees and sapplings I encountered a gun emplacement , overgrown and destroyed , but with a large bunker dug down next to it. I couldn`t find the entrance at first but then I found it , almost closed by the soil and vegetation , and it looks like its been like that for a long time... Maybe there will be a trip back there one of the next days I think :D
Food tin.
I think it is a small battery or at least battery related.
A rotten battery.
A small zink tag.
A German 7.92
Mystery part.
Half a barell.
Bars for holding the barbed wire.
Now I can build my own barbed wire fence.
Entrance to a bunker, at the moment big enough for a fox prehaps,,I wonder whats down there..
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