The Norwegian summer keeps delivering a fantastic rainy weather with a stable temperature below +10 Celsius. This is exellent digging weather so instead of dreaming about sun and beer by the barn I went out to the dumping pits. I knew where I was going so I didn`t even bring the detector today, just a bag for finds and my shovel. I went over to one of the places I marked off on my map and opened up the forest floor. After a short while I realized this was not a dumping pit, just the leftovers of a burning place full of nails, barrel bands and bits of a wooden crate.
The next place was the same, but on the third place it really was a dumping pit. I spent a good few hours sifting through it and it delivered much the same result as the previous pits I ve dug the last week. Lots of bottles of all kinds, some bakelite items, a bunch of tiny glass tubes, ampoules and lids from small zunder boxes. I had the weirdest find I ve ever made in a dumping pit too, a small dental bridge. I really wonder what made the person throw that away,,didn`t he need teeth now when the war had ended?! A small hoard of frost cream tubes came out from under the roots, three Esbit burners and the best find today was a german belt, sadly the belt buckle was nowhere to be found but next time I ll bring the detector and search the surrounding area in case it was taken off the belt and chucked into the woods.
When I had filled back the pit I spent an hour wandering around checking for other ditches and I found a few places and marked them on the map, so lets hope for some real treasures next time :)
The next place was the same, but on the third place it really was a dumping pit. I spent a good few hours sifting through it and it delivered much the same result as the previous pits I ve dug the last week. Lots of bottles of all kinds, some bakelite items, a bunch of tiny glass tubes, ampoules and lids from small zunder boxes. I had the weirdest find I ve ever made in a dumping pit too, a small dental bridge. I really wonder what made the person throw that away,,didn`t he need teeth now when the war had ended?! A small hoard of frost cream tubes came out from under the roots, three Esbit burners and the best find today was a german belt, sadly the belt buckle was nowhere to be found but next time I ll bring the detector and search the surrounding area in case it was taken off the belt and chucked into the woods.
When I had filled back the pit I spent an hour wandering around checking for other ditches and I found a few places and marked them on the map, so lets hope for some real treasures next time :)
Bottles everywhere so one need to dig softly.
Tire gauge made from bakelite.
Broken bottles and rubbish.
Part of a boot, more bottles and a battery.
A bakelite lid and a clock.
A growing pile of relics.
Signal flare and a small oiler.
Cream tubes.
I ve never seen those small kunststoff boxes before.
The discarded dental bridge.
WH belt minus the buckle.
I only found this buckle.
Three Esbit burners, a zunder box lid and a soap box lid.
A bakelite box without the lid.
Glass tubes and ampoules.
A bunch of small bottles.
Nigrolin shoe polish.
First medical bottle I ve found with label intact.
This bottle had a nice logo embossed so it was brought home.
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