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Bunkers & Barbed Wires

9/14/2018

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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
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Food tin.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
I think it is a small battery or at least battery related.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
A rotten battery.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
A small zink tag.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
A German 7.92
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Mystery part.
Picturehobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Half a barell.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Bars for holding the barbed wire.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Now I can build my own barbed wire fence.
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
hobbyhistorica atlantikwall ww2 relic hunting battlefield recovery bunker crawling bunkers german concrete
Entrance to a bunker, at the moment big enough for a fox prehaps,,I wonder whats down there..
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