I started checking the dug-outs and the area between them while moving towards "the front" of the position. All the dug-outs was either totally empty or there was some german barbed wire dumped in a corner or the entrance of them. In some the only signals was pieces of metal sheets and chicken wire. As I took the camera to snap some pics the battery died, so I had to use the camera on the GalaxyS3, not as good but better than nothing :)
This morning I went to the site which I was going to search when the detector gave up a few weeks ago. In this small patch of forest the British Scotsguards set up a position with a few 2 pounder guns to shell the advancing Gebirgstruppe coming from the south. Earlier this summer I found a british gasmask and heaps of german barbed wire here. Behind the gun positions there were dug-outs for the troops. The fighting here hadn`t lasted many days so it is a fairly clean area but I hoped to find some more proof the British was here and maybe if lucky a dumping pit. I started checking the dug-outs and the area between them while moving towards "the front" of the position. All the dug-outs was either totally empty or there was some german barbed wire dumped in a corner or the entrance of them. In some the only signals was pieces of metal sheets and chicken wire. As I took the camera to snap some pics the battery died, so I had to use the camera on the GalaxyS3, not as good but better than nothing :) Naturally the most promising area with lots of different signals was the most difficult one. A deep and large dug out full of cut down bushes, branches and frozen water. I dug for a good while here, got cold and soaked, and I didn`t find anything interesting really, but found one small rubbish pit with stuff dating back to the sixties. The rest of the position gave little results as there was almost no signals anywhere. I went back to the spot with signals and kept digging there for an hour more before I called it quits. Fresh, cold and wet to the bones but happy I drove back home to make some good food and sit infront of the fire to dry up:)
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