Shortly after morning coffee we headed out back to yesterdays pit to clean it up and hopefully find some more treasures. It was sunny but alittle bit of clouds today and still it was quite warm. The pit looked like it could be part of a long ditch so I started by the edge I had left yesterday. Some 40 cm down metal and bottles began popping out and after a while I reached the bottom. It became clear that if this was a ditch I was at the end of it because the wall in front of me was empty, I tunneled in a meter or so but it was all untouched soil. There wasn`t so many finds so far either. The first find was a nice late type drinking canteen, and I think I found the cap for it yesterday. Some more of the M24 parts, a pair of Gebirgsjäger boot soles, a toothbrush, a few uniform buttons and a wine bottle with most of the paper label intact was placed in the "bring home" pile. Almost on the bottom I saw a square shaped aluminium part, and I hoped it was another belt buckle. It was not, but prehaps a better find, it was a Finnish made compass house in quite nice condition. I ve never seen this type before so I was quite happy with the find. The hole was more or less emptied by now but in the last part of the bottom layer I pulled out a live M39 egg grenade, which after inspection was carefully placed back.
Girlfriend refilled the pit and I opened up the other side of what I dug yesterday but I just had to come to terms with the fact that it was not a long ditch as hoped, it was all empty. I did a few test digs and checked it thouroughly with the Fisher but no hits at all. We stumbled around the area checking signals here and there but we found only two more small dumping pits both filled with M24 stick tops. One of the tops had a live Brennzunder and it also was stuck back deep in the ground.
The heat ate all my energy and after a few hours I decided it was time to go home and find a few cold beers to enjoy on the porch and relax before a work day tomorrow, but if the weather allows we ll be back here on Sunday for some more rust hunting :)
Stay Happy and do something nice my friends :)
Girlfriend refilled the pit and I opened up the other side of what I dug yesterday but I just had to come to terms with the fact that it was not a long ditch as hoped, it was all empty. I did a few test digs and checked it thouroughly with the Fisher but no hits at all. We stumbled around the area checking signals here and there but we found only two more small dumping pits both filled with M24 stick tops. One of the tops had a live Brennzunder and it also was stuck back deep in the ground.
The heat ate all my energy and after a few hours I decided it was time to go home and find a few cold beers to enjoy on the porch and relax before a work day tomorrow, but if the weather allows we ll be back here on Sunday for some more rust hunting :)
Stay Happy and do something nice my friends :)
A late type field flask.
Im starting to get a big collection of old used toothbrushes by now.
French wine.
Piece of rotted uniform.
Esbit burner.
Gebirgsjäger boot soles.
Finding the compass house.
A great find.
Cleaned up.
Live M39.
I never toy around with live stuff so it was placed back deep underground.
Taking pics of the finds.
Making room for digging.
The M24 dumps held hundreds of these tops.
Live Brennzunder.
RSS Feed