The last three nights the temperature have been between 5 and 10 degree below zero and it was extra frosty outside this morning. Me and Girlfriend made a trip to the Gebirgsjäger capitulation site to pick up another one of the metal plates which I think might be from a German vehicle. I brought the detector just in case it was still possible to do some digging. Strolling towards the site the detector picked up a signal here and there and luckily only the top 5 cm of the ground had frozen hard, but still not hard enough to not be able to dig. Halfway to where the metal plate should be I found a very nice and strong signal and after a bit of digging it became clear it was a dumping pit.
It was a bit chilly at first but after removing all the top soil I had gotten warm and didn`t notice the beginning winter anymore. Out from the soil came nails, barbed wire bits, rusted food tins, a few Fallschirmleucht signal flares and lots of beer bottles. Many of the bottles was nicely marked on the bottom and the pile of them grew steadily.
After finding the bottom of the pit I began searching the sides and for a while I thought I had found another helmet. I could feel a round shape with the same thickness of helmets, but the more I dug around it, it became clear it was a large bucket or a barrell band and in the end I pulled out a barrell band.
While I had been searching through the pit Girlfriend had kept warm wandering around with the detector picking out some good signals but sadly we found it was only modern rubbish when digging it after we had refilled the now empty dumping pit.
As the days here North is rapidly growing shorter we called it quits as the sun passed behind the mountain and we went to pick up the metal plate and carried it out of the woods.
If we get just a few more nights and days with these kind of cold temperatures the ground will be frozen and impossible to dig so Im hoping for a weather change tonight but I might not be so lucky and this might well have been the last dig of the season, but we ll know for sure the coming days.
Stay warm my Friends :)
It was a bit chilly at first but after removing all the top soil I had gotten warm and didn`t notice the beginning winter anymore. Out from the soil came nails, barbed wire bits, rusted food tins, a few Fallschirmleucht signal flares and lots of beer bottles. Many of the bottles was nicely marked on the bottom and the pile of them grew steadily.
After finding the bottom of the pit I began searching the sides and for a while I thought I had found another helmet. I could feel a round shape with the same thickness of helmets, but the more I dug around it, it became clear it was a large bucket or a barrell band and in the end I pulled out a barrell band.
While I had been searching through the pit Girlfriend had kept warm wandering around with the detector picking out some good signals but sadly we found it was only modern rubbish when digging it after we had refilled the now empty dumping pit.
As the days here North is rapidly growing shorter we called it quits as the sun passed behind the mountain and we went to pick up the metal plate and carried it out of the woods.
If we get just a few more nights and days with these kind of cold temperatures the ground will be frozen and impossible to dig so Im hoping for a weather change tonight but I might not be so lucky and this might well have been the last dig of the season, but we ll know for sure the coming days.
Stay warm my Friends :)
Frozen world.
Checking a signal.
Rust and broken bottles.
Barbed wire.
Part of a stove chimney.
Checking a bottle for markings.
Nicely marked bottle.
Grumpy that it was a barrell band and not a helmet.
Some finds.
A small brush.
Signal flares.
Perfume bottle.
Paper bits.
Piece of cloth.
Broken shaving mirror.
0.7l bottles.
0.35l Beer bottles.
Nicely marked bottles.
Mystery vehicle/wagon part.
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