Bears,Bottles & a Bayonet

This morning I had doubts to if I should make a trip to the forest, or stay home working on another project I have going, but in the end the need for hearing the mossies buzz around my head won. Glad am I for that, it was a little bit of an exciting day. I went to one of the capitulation sites and swung the detector around for a while,digging every signal I got. Most of them was unrecognisable rusted metal, and I probably found a dumping pit, but it was covered with some large wire coils so I ll save them for another day. At one point I lost my bayonet which I use for digging dumping pits and when I searched for it I came across a big bear dropping. I wonder if it is the same bear I ve seen tracks from the previous years. I found the bayonet and continued searching for some kind of treasure. 50-60 meters of searching I stopped,I smelled bear. They have a strong smell. I looked around in the grass and there I saw a flattened area, and next to it two other a bit smaller spots with flattened grass, someone had been laying there not so long ago. I couldn`t see or hear them anywhere so I decided it was safe to continue, but made some extra noise to make them aware a humanoid was visiting their forest. Bears are mostly very shy,and they rarely attack people but a mommy bear with kids can be sketchy at best.
When I started digging the next signal a few hundred meters further into the forest I forgot all about any bears, here was a nice little dumping pit and german beer and wine bottles was pouring out from under the moss and soil. 

Bear dropping.

Between the shovel and the forefront of the pic is a large "square" with flattened grass, and it smelled strong of bear here.

Here you can see two of the smaller sleeping spots.

A soldiers personal knife.

Whats left of some goggles.

Bottles,food tins and part of a hinge.

I dug clean one of the sides first,then turned around and began digging the other side and the first thing I find is the handle of a K98 bayonet. I carefully dug it free and it still had the leather frog, but a part of it fell of when I tried to get some of the soil off it. Very happy with that one, have it on the bench ready for cleaning now. There was still alot of metal left but between the ever present food tins the only other nice find was a pair of spurs which look like they will clean up nice. After making sure there was nothing left I filled the pit back and searched around for a couple of hours without any interesting finds. On the way back to the car I had moved onto the forest road and was searching the sides of it when I met a couple out walking their dog. They was interested in what I had found and they told me about a place near the river where it supposedly had been dumped alot of things. Ofcourse I went over there but as I walked down a small slope I again saw a spot with flattened grass and the next 3-4 meters I walked I saw 6 (!) large bear droppings! I tried search the area but it was very difficult to move around as it is totally overgrown with bushes and young sapplings standing thick as a wall. I might be able to find a clearing approaching from the oposite side but I have to wait a few weeks until the river calms down and withdraw from the little side rivers which I need to cross, so it is for later this summer unless Im eaten by bears before that.
​Until next time, keep digging:)
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The find of the day.

Part of the leather frog for the bayonet.

Spurs.

What is left of a Esbit stove.

Skincream jar.

Some knitted wool,prehaps from a sweater.