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King Winter and Gold at the End of the Rainbow

10/17/2020

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On Thursday me and the Girlfriend went out for Chaga hunting, but I managed to talk her into a short stop at the German camp for some searching before going further. I ran around with the detector for a while but didn`t have much luck. I got a big signal which had to be dug, but it was just a whole lot of smaller horseshoes. Nine of them. Next I found a spring for the gasmask, the ones used inside the mask to keep its shape, and also an eyelet from a gasmask. Then I found a small dumping ditch which I just did a little test-opening of. I pulled out a bottle, some horse strap buckles and a porcelain cream jar, and left the ditch for another day, probably next season. 
Now we went back to the car and drove into another valley where we earlier on a stroll had spotted Chaga mushroom growing on some trees. We climbed the hill and to our big surprise we saw rests of buildings and earthen dug outs. Between some trees old German barbed wire had grown into the trunks and was stretched out. So here had definately been a German camp. This is a place to check out further if I can get the permission to search there, a project for wintertime. We found some Chaga and kept looking for more when Girlfriend called out to me and said she had found a bunker. She had discovered a shelter built into the side of the slope, and it had survived all these years since the war! Very interesting! 
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A snowbow :)
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"Gaaahh,,more horseshoes..."
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Small findings from a dumping ditch.
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Part of an harmonica.
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Gasmask spring.
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The ammo we found we chucked into the river.
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The rest of the day was spent Chaga hunting.
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The "Wellblech" shelter Girlfriend found.
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hobbyhistorica relic hunting history hunter battlefield searching metal detecting fisher f5 garrett pin pointer northern norway WH camp wehrmacht  yngve sjodin yngve sjødin inka holmes ww2 treasure hunting gebirgsjäger gold
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On Friday we had to be in the city, but we made it safely back to nature in the evening. This morning I wanted to go searching again, but I was gutted when I looked out the windows. There were snow. Lots of it. King Winter had arrived and he had been busy during the night. The morning was spent changing car tyres and shopping but when that was done I decided I just had to get out there, snow or no snow. The frost hasn`t made the ground into concrete yet so technically the season is still on. Girlfriend had to work so I went out to the Gebirgsjäger camp alone for a few hours of digging. There were more snow in the forest than around the farm, but the detector doesn`t notice a few cm of winter so it kept showing me where metals were buried. The first signal was one of the aluminum food tins, but the next one was a "day-saver". A helmet liner in very nice condition,even with the leather chin strap intact. I hoped there would be a helmet around but I couldn`t find it. I guess I have found my fair share of helmets for a few seasons anyway :D Next up I dug up a field shovel, and a few meters away a small pit filled with horseshoe tools, a whole hoard of them, nine in total! 
The detector kept screaming and I dug out three vehicle fire extinguishers and two brackets for them. None of the extinguishers were complete but prehaps I`ll find the rest of them someday. Then I had a very interesting signal, the detector indicated gold or bling or something like it, foil prehaps, so I sat down in the snow again, starting to feel the needles from the cold going through my skin. I was of course all soaking wet by now but in a second I didn`t notice that anymore. I removed some snow and opened up the forest floor and I saw something yellow. Yellow like gold. That was exciting! I carefully dug out several parts of a broken tray of some sort and I am pretty sure it is gold plated silver. Very nicely ornamented. I found it in the middle of what seemed to be a burn pit so it was difficult to be sure if I had gotten all the bits for the tray. I searched what I could before I had to begin my trip back home, but made sure to mark the place so I can easily find back to it to try locate any missing bits. 
I am not sure if this is the final dig of the season, but if it is it was certainly a good one!! But I hope there will be a few more chances before the ground is block frozen :)
​Have a great weekend everyone:)
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Food tin.
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A great looking helmet liner!! 
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Chains and bits from some horse equipment.
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Field shovel.
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A K98 round.
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Horseshoe tools.
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Vehicle fire extinguisher.
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hobbyhistorica relic hunting history hunter battlefield searching metal detecting fisher f5 garrett pin pointer northern norway WH camp wehrmacht  yngve sjodin yngve sjødin inka holmes ww2 treasure hunting gebirgsjäger gold
hobbyhistorica relic hunting history hunter battlefield searching metal detecting fisher f5 garrett pin pointer northern norway WH camp wehrmacht  yngve sjodin yngve sjødin inka holmes ww2 treasure hunting gebirgsjäger gold
The smashed tray.
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A few bits are missing so I need to get back there and try find the rest.
2 Comments
Terri Lynn Brady link
10/17/2020 01:35:32 pm

sorry you are at the end of warmer weather. Now you can play with all the horse shoes! hahahaa. I have never seen horse shoe tools like that... but we don't need ice cleats in the US. There are things you can make with horse shoes, bits and the chains too. I hope what you found is real gold. That would be a good reward for the summer of hunting. Your English is much better than your early "papers" BTW. I want to read them all someday.

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inka
10/17/2020 11:56:00 pm

Thanks:)

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