The dumping area I had located this autumn was really interesting to search even though 75% of my finds there had been horseshoes so far and the rest being mostly junk. I am sure there is some good stuff waiting to be found here and in one of the pits I opened I got proof there must be more to find. I had dug a classic garbage pit full of bottles,food tins and whatnot, it started to get rather wide and deep as it was a lot of objects here. Some pieces of leather and wool showed up between the rust, and studying the leather I saw it had been ammo pouches for k98 Mauser rounds. I continued to dig in the section I found these and suddenly I had a square piece of alloy in my hand. My first belt buckle dug in Norway, man that was fun! It had been denazified before discarded and it still had the support leather tab intact. Already on the next poke in the dirt with my bayonet I had another jawdrop. It had to be brass I thought when I saw it, but no, infront of me was a large ring, old and worn and it was very much looking like gold! I placed the finds where I wouldnt loose them and finished up the dig without anymore finds other than the all so familiar rusted bits. Later I went to a goldsmith to have them look at the ring, and it really was 4.9 gram gold, not stamped and it was for a large finger. I wonder how it ended up in this garbage pit but thats one thing we`ll never know.
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