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MG34 Cradle

8/27/2020

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Soon after Girlfriend went to work this morning I headed out to the forest for some searching. I went to one of the dumping pits I had located earlier and got on with the digging. Sadly it was only a small corner of this pit that was possible to dig, the rest was filled with a deep layer of barbed wires, but between the rust and broken glass I pulled out a nice schnapps glass, several cognac bottles, a cigarett case and a very cool little Finnish map tool. From time to time a red and fluffy squirrel came down a nearby tree to check on me which was very funny.
Next I went a few kilometers further in to the forest where I was going to try locate the site of three-four barracks I knew should be there somewhere. On the way there I checked the occasional signal picked up by the Fisher F5 and I kept looking at the birch trees for the Chaga mushroom which makes an exellent and super healthy tea, and I did find a few chuncks of it. I reached the hillside and began looking around for the barrack foundations and soon the detector began giving of some signals again. Over a few hundred meters I picked up a whole bunch of German 5 cm mortar tail fins, a few of their fuses and lots of shrapnel and fragments from them. I wonder whats been going on there as I don`t think this site saw any fighting.. Another half kilometer of strolling and I found the site with the barracks and began searching around them. Here were lots of signals. Mostly nails, food tins and bits from cast iron ovens. Near a large rock I found a Zeiler field torch and not too far from it a very nice looking MG34 cradle!! Together with the cradle was a bolt of some kind, long, spiked in one end and the other end machined to perfectly fit into the cradle, prehaps some trench-/field mount set up.
I spent some hours around here digging signals and hoping to find a dumping pit or two but when heavy rain moved in I had not had much more luck. I had found some small items like belt support hooks, an Esbit burner, an Odol mouthwash bottle and Odol toothpast tube, a Norwegian coin, a 4711 bottle and a pair of Gebirgsjäger ski goggles. 
The rain didn`t make any signs of stopping so when I was wet all the way through I gave in and started my little journey back to the car, but I am going back here pretty soon as there is more rust to find and lots of blueberries to pick:)
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At some point it must have been a party here.
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
Cigarett case.
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
Scnapps glass.
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
The map tool.
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
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
Norwegian ski wax for better grip.
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
Nature..
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
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
Chaga :)
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
5 cm mortar tail fins.
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
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
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
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
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
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
I hope I one day find a complete and intact thermos like this, they are always destroyed when I find them..
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Zeiler field torch.
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
The MG cradle.
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
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
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
Odol toothpaste.
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
Odol mouthwash bottle.
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
Some of the other bits.
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
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
The last find of the day,, a padlock in near perfect condition.
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3 Comments
John Harvey
8/27/2020 12:36:57 pm

Nice combination of finds and nature, love this hobby !!...HH..John.

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Marco
8/27/2020 02:20:56 pm

And again an awesome tale from you. Keep searching and suprise us with your stories.

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Terri Lynn Brady link
8/29/2020 03:53:15 pm

I love the porcelain pieces... what do you do with all the coins you find? be careful out there in the old explosives.

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