Digging in December, that is something I haven`t done before, until today. Living as far north in Norway as I do this is quite out of the ordinary, usually there is a good coverage of snow by now and the ground frozen deep and hard as concrete. But this mild weather allowed me for yet another day of searching the Heer camp for old war junk. Ca 0945 it had become light enough so I fed the cat and went out there for some rust hunting. The temperature was just above 0 degree Celsius, and as I was going to check the first signal given by my metal detector I noticed that the night frost had already had some effect and made the ground harder. To begin with I pulled out a couple of food tins and a lamp shade, just too bad it was so rotted because I know someone who makes old ground found lamps alive again.. The next signal made my day, it was a nice and empty M24 grenade head, hopefully with some paint left! Not even 10 cm away under a branch I spotted a familiar shape and dragged out a quite ok looking gasmask container, what a start of the day! The next half hour of picking up signals also paid off, first a Soviet army PPSh submachine gun magazine and a little further along the slope I found another one of the Finnish LS M/26 magazines. In the next couple of hours I managed to make sure the backpack had a decent weight to it by digging up a handfull of padlocks, some sporks, part of a helmet liner, a few K98 rifle parts and a scabbard for one of the bayonets I found recently. I also dug up a big block of rusted together boot hob nails, a few heel irons and a big soup ladle with a repair on it, and of course kilos of rusted junk.
The day passed along fast and soon there was too dark to see much, just when I discovered what might be a dumping pit a few meter in front of the slope. Prehaps I will take a trip out there tomorrow to check it, we will see how the weather and tempereatures will be. Again I fear that it might be my last chance of having any more digging done this season as it is reported cold weather coming in and then the ground will be impenetrable very fast, but then again maybe the global warming is finally kicking in making winter for us northern diggers enjoyable :)
The day passed along fast and soon there was too dark to see much, just when I discovered what might be a dumping pit a few meter in front of the slope. Prehaps I will take a trip out there tomorrow to check it, we will see how the weather and tempereatures will be. Again I fear that it might be my last chance of having any more digging done this season as it is reported cold weather coming in and then the ground will be impenetrable very fast, but then again maybe the global warming is finally kicking in making winter for us northern diggers enjoyable :)
One of many food tins.
A coat hanger.
At first I thought the lampshade was a Panzerfaust head.
A nice example of a M24 stick grenade head, and empty so it can go straight into the oxalic acid:)
A gasmask canister.
PPSh magazine.
LS M26 magazine.
A pair of padlocks. I found 5 or 6 of them today.
Rusted away food scoops.
Part of a helmet liner.
A mystery part.
A block of boot hob nails.
Piece of some Finnish porcelain.
K98 bayonet scabbard.
Parts from a K98 rifle.
Two of the sporks I found.
A big soup ladle which someone repaired.
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