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Garbage Day

8/6/2017

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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
After a long and lazy morning we decided to get out for a stroll and went to the Gebirgsjäger capitulation site to hunt for treasures. The Fisher seemed hell bent on only picking out wires and nails but after a while we had a good signal under some branches. A couple of cm under the forest floor was a battledamaged canteen which I think will look good when cleaned up, but the next hours it was again all the well too familiar rusted wire bits to be found. In a grassy patch of the forest there seemed to be several  dumping pits spread around. The two first was quite small and held nothing interesting. I got a little frustrated and almost shouted "Aaaah,give me something good!!A belt buckle, EKM or a coin!!" and swept the detector under a bush. It gave off a very good signal , and it was a coin! A Norwegian one from 1940! A few meter away there was again a great signal. I opened it up and a few shovels in I knew it was a large dumping pit. I kept digging it for hours while my girlfriend wandered around with the detector.
When the pit was emptied it hadn`t come out so many good finds, but a handfull of things was good enough to be saved and brought back home. A couple of stripper clips, a few small bottles, two bayonet leather frogs and a large headlight of some kind made from aluminium.
Girlfriend had picked out a few good signals like a K98 cleaning kit, a Doramad toothpaste tube and she located a dumping pit which will be dug one of the next days. We were both getting hungry so we strolled back to the car following a small river where we found a hot food container and a broken Stomatol bottle in a beautiful blue color, really sad that one was broken..
Although we didn`t find much it had been a very fine day and as we got close to the car it began raining heavily so it was just a perfect timing to call it quits.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Battledanaged canteen.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Nicely marked.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Rusted old rubbish.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Piece from a broken bunker stove.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Horseshoe and some bolts.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Digging in a cloud of pollen .
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Norwegian coin from 1940.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Bottles.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
We were lucky and found some drink for the evening.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Bit from a field radio.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds yngve sjødin
Digging the dumping pit.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Nivea and perfume bottle.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Piece of a saw.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Parts from window frames.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
K98 bayonet frogs.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Part from some kind of fuel tank.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
One of the stripper clips.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Large headlight. I ve never seen such a big one before.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Knob from a field radio.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Rubber from some tyre.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Heavy duty scissor.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
K98 cleaning kit.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Hot food container.
hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting fisher f5 relic hunting battlefieldfinds
Broken Stomatol bottle.
2 Comments
Yanni
8/7/2017 06:20:03 pm

Inca My friend like always you are a legend.

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Karl Eriksen link
8/7/2017 09:11:28 pm

This is what it`s all about. Sometimes things are so full of soil and rust that you cannot tell what it is until you start cleaning it. An done thing is for sure, there is a lot of buried treasures. I myself have found several items made by the companys blacksmith, a one of a kind thing. They will never leave my house, they`re unique. Is not always the milltary stuff that impress me, but a lot of other items such as those nice little bottles, porcelain, coins and other assorted personal stuff. This is for me the total feeling of relaxing. Really like your site. Dig on.
Regards. Karl.

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