The clouds hung low today but it was nice and warm and I had a ditch to dig so I got up early and found my way to the forest. I really should spend the day packing stuff for the move, but I just couldn`t stay indoors, I ve been digging too little so far this season as it is. My plan was to search through another one of the ditches I located before winter so I turned on the Fisher F5, ground balanced it, and went to work. A few meter of walking and it gave a nice and clear signal that had to be investigated. As I got the pin pointer out and swiped it across the little pile of sand I had dug out I saw the corner of the metal bit. It had a small hole in the corner and that gave it away, I knew it was a POW ID tag. I brushed away the sand and found it was just half a tag, but nice and readable. The guy who had worn it probably broke it in half and threw the pieces away sometime around his liberation in 1945, so I gave the surroundings a good search but didn`t manage to find the other piece,,heck,maybe I found it last year or some of the years before that, I need to check my piles for a match.
The dumping ditch was opened and searched but there was no interesting item at all, only rusted tins and barrell bands. I found two other relatively small pits and the same result there. A fourth short ditch gave off interesting signals, but those were some large bits off an oven, and the only "keepable" bit was a tunic button and a Losantine bakelite box.
Walking back to the car I found a pick axe and a big lock from maybe one of the POW barracks, or a shed.
The next two days will be spent at work and at home packing but on Sunday I hope to drag myself away and back into the ants and mosqitoes territories.
The dumping ditch was opened and searched but there was no interesting item at all, only rusted tins and barrell bands. I found two other relatively small pits and the same result there. A fourth short ditch gave off interesting signals, but those were some large bits off an oven, and the only "keepable" bit was a tunic button and a Losantine bakelite box.
Walking back to the car I found a pick axe and a big lock from maybe one of the POW barracks, or a shed.
The next two days will be spent at work and at home packing but on Sunday I hope to drag myself away and back into the ants and mosqitoes territories.
So fun to find this on the first signal.
Toothpaste tube.
German combat boot sole.
Mystery bit.
Trash.
Half of the saw had rusted away.
Tunic button.
Oven parts.
A shoe and a door handle.
Losantine.
The pickaxe looks to be in such good condition that any stamps on it will show.
Plastic and metal button.
The lock I found.
The blueberries are getting ripe.
The ID tag cleaned up a bit.
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