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7/14/2017

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hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Lately it has been raining heavily so I ve spent the days cleaning relics and as a direct result of that cleaning the house. Today I felt it was time for a dig no matter how hard it was raining, so I went to the Wehrmacht depot. Even before reaching the place I was soaked and when I found the spot I had planned to dig I saw it was all flooded. I ve never seen this place like this before, the water was maybe a 10-15 cm above the forest floor. Most of the forest was "dry" though so I strolled around picking up signals. I found some crate parts, ammo casings,but mostly steel ones so quite rotted away, and tons of nails. Not one and one nail, small pits full of them, and a few places I found large coils of barbed wire and I dug out four small transport seals.
The forest is full of barrack foundations, earth cellars and irrigation ditches and in one of those cellars the metal detector went mad. I opened up the forest floor and just beneath the soil it was packed full of small mortar powder charge tins. I spent a few hours searching through the cellar and picked out a few tins worth saving. By now I was so soaked that it wouldnt have made a difference if I had laid down in the river, my bag was also full so I went back home to dry up and clean some more relics.
I`ll be out there again as soon as possible, come rain,flames or a rare sunny day:)
​Stay Muddy:)
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Forest turned into a swamp,,reminds me I have to check wiki if there are polar-aligators in Norway..
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Transport seals.
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Ammo crate part.
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Axe head.
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Parts of fallen barrack.
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
Mortar powder charge tins. Some with nice intact paper labels.
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
hobbyhistorica metal detecting finds military archaeology ww2 world war two treasure hunting wehrmacht relics
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