I AM DIGGING!

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.

Chains,bits of leather,cans,some cloth and a paintbrush came out of the soil on the first signals I dug.

The knife and pocketknife.

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.

Trash.

Bootheel iron, part of M24 stick grenade, piece of goggles, the karbid lamp part I thought was a detonator and two belt support hooks.

Signal flares.

Medic bottle, some cream tubes and the top of a canteen.

Tiny bits.

I love to find such tiny glass vials.

Karbid lamp.

Food tin.

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.

Nivea products.

A coin from Finland. 1928.

A very small bit of "Trench-art".

A Norwegian coin.

Last find was this nice green bottle.