Back home after a successful expedition to Latvia and the perfect weather here North invited for a trip to the woods. I had located a forest where it supposedly had been a larger Wehrmacht camp during the war, and after the war the site had as many former German sites been used by Nato. The place has undergone some changes since the war but I hoped to find some proof of its history.
I walked the faintly visible old road which I had seen on the maps and expected to approach a couple of old Nato barracks but found a big old German barrack, probably it was a garage at some point. It was locked off so I didn`t make any effort to go inside, I prefer having the owners permission for that as it had a new tractor road leading up to it so it is clearly in use. Around it I found a few German Kraftstoff barrells and a WH axe. Much of the signals I had from the detector was old Nato training ammo and foil from rations and almost no signs of German activity. I crossed the road and found another barrack and behind it was a little slope where the place Im searching might be. Seems the forest floor hid a big dumpingsite. Relics poking out from under the grass and I made a little test dig to make sure its worth going back here for some more intensive digging :)
I walked the faintly visible old road which I had seen on the maps and expected to approach a couple of old Nato barracks but found a big old German barrack, probably it was a garage at some point. It was locked off so I didn`t make any effort to go inside, I prefer having the owners permission for that as it had a new tractor road leading up to it so it is clearly in use. Around it I found a few German Kraftstoff barrells and a WH axe. Much of the signals I had from the detector was old Nato training ammo and foil from rations and almost no signs of German activity. I crossed the road and found another barrack and behind it was a little slope where the place Im searching might be. Seems the forest floor hid a big dumpingsite. Relics poking out from under the grass and I made a little test dig to make sure its worth going back here for some more intensive digging :)
One can never have too many WH axes.
Mystery part.
I think it is from a practise mine.
7.5 cm PaK shell container lid.
Shovel, karbid lamp and a barrell band.
A large 5 l pitcher.
Old thermos.
Food tin and Marschgetrink.
A gearshifter.
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