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I AM DIGGING!

6/2/2017

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hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Today I woke up to a wonderful blue sky and it actually felt like spring finally has arrived with full force. I found my digger clothes and stuck my head in the coffee pot for half an hour before heading out to the forest. A good place to start the forest season was the spot I had to quit in mid October when frost and winter came. During the war the patch of forest was a part of a large Wehrmacht camp and Gebirgsjäger units that had fought on the Finland/Murmansk front capitulated here. In October I had been digging out a large dumping pit and decided to metaldetect my way there and finish it up.
I had a couple of interesting signals on my stroll towards the pit, but only one of them was a relic worth saving, a knife that looks sort of "home-made" and it lay together with a small rusted pocket knife.

hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Chains,bits of leather,cans,some cloth and a paintbrush came out of the soil on the first signals I dug.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
The knife and pocketknife.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Horseshoe icecleat bolts gives of a good enough signal to dig, and they are scattered everywhere.
When I reached the dumping pit I discovered that the half I havent dug yet had a large pool of water from the melted snow, so I decided to just check around the edges and tidy up what I already had dug. Doing this I soon discovered the ditch continued in one of the corners I thought I had cleared,and it sort of led into a larger ditch I hadnt seen last year because of all the vegetation. This might become a interesting summer for sure!
The soil was packed full of rust and bottles and junk, but in between was the odd relic worth rescuing from further decay. At one point I found what looked like a long Brennzunder, but moments later I realized the part belongs to a karbid lamp.
I had put my backpack a few meters away, on the other side of a fence. To reach it I grabbed one of the wires in the fence, and I felt a jolt going through my hand and arm! -Huh? Fences isn`t supposed to hurt? I thought , and with all my blondness I had to investigate it closer by grabbing it with both hands, and damn the shock it gave me, I couldnt even let it go! Ofcourse it was an electrical fence because of the farmers livestock.Who would have thunk it.. :D
Hours went by digging and by the time I had to leave I hadnt found much good stuff,just a few items really, but the hopes for whats to find next is bigger, and I ll be back there after work tomorrow.



hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Trash.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Bootheel iron, part of M24 stick grenade, piece of goggles, the karbid lamp part I thought was a detonator and two belt support hooks.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Signal flares.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Medic bottle, some cream tubes and the top of a canteen.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Tiny bits.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
I love to find such tiny glass vials.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Karbid lamp.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Food tin.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
The base of a lamp. I wonder if it had belonged to the officers mess hall, or prehaps the camp Kommandants office? For sure it will get new life with a helmet as lampshade.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Nivea products.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
A coin from Finland. 1928.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
A very small bit of "Trench-art".
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
A Norwegian coin.
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
hobbyhistorica metaldetecting ww2 norway yngve sjodin battlefield relics
Last find was this nice green bottle.
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