Sometimes time flies fast. This last week was like that. On wednesday the Girlfriend came back home from the course she had been attending, but yesterday morning she drove to Finnmark where she is doing her fieldwork. Like a snap with the fingers. We have been busy together these days though. One of the days we went to the mountain where she harvested a lot of plants while I was crawling around with my pinpointer picking small bits of metal. A few days earlier I had dug some MG bits there and now I wanted to collect them all. During a few hours I filled a box with parts and when there was only food tins left I joined the Girlfriend who was now picking blueberries.
The rest of the weekend was spent making tea from the plants she had collected. When it had dried we weighed it to alittle more than a kilo and the tea is now curing on glass jars, and I am looking forward to have a cup when it is ready. We also launched a small raid on the strawberry field.
After she left yesterday morning I went back up to the mountain to continue the search in the Gebirgsjäger camp. I had very little luck. I brought home a handfull of k98 casings and two medical ampoules. After searching many hours I finally had a massive signal stretching for about a meter long and half meter wide. It turned out it was a dumping pit for horseshoes. Small and big, new and worn thin. Nearby I had found what probably was the camp kitchen so I wonder if these horses who had worn the shoes had become dinner for hungry troops. In the afternoon I still hadn`t found anything interesting so I enjoyed the nice weather for a while, just sitting by a tree eating blueberries I could grab from around me.
Today I decided to go to a huge dumping pit I still hadn`t finished from last season. I have gotten many good finds from it so I was pleased to see that nobody else had found it, which is kinda strange as I know of at least one other digger searching this camp. I started from where I had left off. It was just lifting away the top vegetation and begin moving sand. Very soon the first bottles, wires and food tins got removed and I could see the edge of a porcelain plate. I pulled out three plates but only one was intact. It had no German markings, just the Norwegian producers logo. The next find was a fork, and two large buckets that I spent a lot of time on getting out of the way. It was two items behind the buckets. I thought it was a speedometer at first but it is some other kind of meter which look like it could fit to a cars dashboard. The other item was made of porcelain. I moved away some sand and saw it was a coffee cup. But would it be intact, and would it have markings? Exciting. I got it loose and it was a intact Luftwaffe cup! Awesome! Last season I found a Heer cup here. I wonder if there is a SS cup in the other corner :D
Bottles kept pouring out like it was a glass recycling station I was digging. Mostly it was small perfume- and ink bottles with the occasional wine bottle in between. I spent another hour digging around a big mess of wires to get the bundle free and out of the way, it was really annoying but I was rewarded with two bakelite boxes. One small for powder charge for Gebirgs Geschutz and a larger for a field artillery gun. A small porcelain lighter and a roller date stamp was also rescued from time and deterioration. The date on the stamp said 22. Nov 1946.
I found the bottom of the section I was digging and picked up some rubbery material. Attached to its underside was a medal!! The Eastern Front medal, "the order of the frozen flesh" as it was called. It looked to be in decent condition, for sure far better than the last one I found. Some plastic foil turned out to be a car pennant when I got the sand brushed off it. Too bad it was completely destroyed, it would have been a cool thing to have in the collection. Behind a bunch of the remains of field telephone headsets was a porcelain bowl. Intact but again only Norwegian markings on it. And behind that again was a drinking glass and a few gaming pieces.
But now it began raining. At first I just continued digging as I hoped it would just be a quick shower. It didn`t stop. It just grew stronger and wetter. It was time to fill the treasures into the backpack and get home. Seems it would have been the end today anyway because I could barely close the backpack it was so full :D
I cleaned up the dig site so it looked nice but I think I might go back there tomorrow if the rain stops :)
The rest of the weekend was spent making tea from the plants she had collected. When it had dried we weighed it to alittle more than a kilo and the tea is now curing on glass jars, and I am looking forward to have a cup when it is ready. We also launched a small raid on the strawberry field.
After she left yesterday morning I went back up to the mountain to continue the search in the Gebirgsjäger camp. I had very little luck. I brought home a handfull of k98 casings and two medical ampoules. After searching many hours I finally had a massive signal stretching for about a meter long and half meter wide. It turned out it was a dumping pit for horseshoes. Small and big, new and worn thin. Nearby I had found what probably was the camp kitchen so I wonder if these horses who had worn the shoes had become dinner for hungry troops. In the afternoon I still hadn`t found anything interesting so I enjoyed the nice weather for a while, just sitting by a tree eating blueberries I could grab from around me.
Today I decided to go to a huge dumping pit I still hadn`t finished from last season. I have gotten many good finds from it so I was pleased to see that nobody else had found it, which is kinda strange as I know of at least one other digger searching this camp. I started from where I had left off. It was just lifting away the top vegetation and begin moving sand. Very soon the first bottles, wires and food tins got removed and I could see the edge of a porcelain plate. I pulled out three plates but only one was intact. It had no German markings, just the Norwegian producers logo. The next find was a fork, and two large buckets that I spent a lot of time on getting out of the way. It was two items behind the buckets. I thought it was a speedometer at first but it is some other kind of meter which look like it could fit to a cars dashboard. The other item was made of porcelain. I moved away some sand and saw it was a coffee cup. But would it be intact, and would it have markings? Exciting. I got it loose and it was a intact Luftwaffe cup! Awesome! Last season I found a Heer cup here. I wonder if there is a SS cup in the other corner :D
Bottles kept pouring out like it was a glass recycling station I was digging. Mostly it was small perfume- and ink bottles with the occasional wine bottle in between. I spent another hour digging around a big mess of wires to get the bundle free and out of the way, it was really annoying but I was rewarded with two bakelite boxes. One small for powder charge for Gebirgs Geschutz and a larger for a field artillery gun. A small porcelain lighter and a roller date stamp was also rescued from time and deterioration. The date on the stamp said 22. Nov 1946.
I found the bottom of the section I was digging and picked up some rubbery material. Attached to its underside was a medal!! The Eastern Front medal, "the order of the frozen flesh" as it was called. It looked to be in decent condition, for sure far better than the last one I found. Some plastic foil turned out to be a car pennant when I got the sand brushed off it. Too bad it was completely destroyed, it would have been a cool thing to have in the collection. Behind a bunch of the remains of field telephone headsets was a porcelain bowl. Intact but again only Norwegian markings on it. And behind that again was a drinking glass and a few gaming pieces.
But now it began raining. At first I just continued digging as I hoped it would just be a quick shower. It didn`t stop. It just grew stronger and wetter. It was time to fill the treasures into the backpack and get home. Seems it would have been the end today anyway because I could barely close the backpack it was so full :D
I cleaned up the dig site so it looked nice but I think I might go back there tomorrow if the rain stops :)
MG34 feed block.
More bits. The alu part is for a tripod, the other ones I am still unsure.
Part of a MG34 cradle.
Full of small parts.
Leaves that will become tea.
Blueberry hunter. The net is to keep gnats away and to keep me from eating the finds.
Horseshoes found near a kitchen building.
Destroyed fuel drum top.
Ampoules.
Barrack foundation.
Porcelain plates.
Fork.
Some kind of meter.
Awesome find!!
Luftwaffe coffee cup.
Small perfume bottle.
Bakelite box.
The second bakelite box.
Headphones.
Too bad this one was in three pieces.
Small wirespool.
Date stamp.
Porcelain lighter.
Eastern Front medal.
Drinking glass.
Porcelain bowl.
A mitten and a glove.
Car pennant.
Todays loot.
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