Since the Girlfriend had to spend some hours at her office in the city yesterday I jumped into the car and drove to the Wehrmacht camp I visited on saturday. The weather was nearly perfect for digging, some clouds and a little sun and not too warm. The forest was still a little wet from rain but before lunch it had mostly dried up. The insects seemed to be extra happy seeing me again. They were starving and I was their buffet. Biting midges, mosquitoes and blackflies worked together on trying to take me down. Even before I was finished digging the first signal my face felt swollen from all their biting and stinging. I got some roots out of the way and pulled out two vehicle rifle holder parts, both had the leather padding intact. What i thought had been just a single signal turned out to be a small dumping pit because below the two parts I dug up a nice kitchen knife with the Wehrmacht eagle on it. Next to the knife was a oil- or water can for a machine gun. Then I dragged up a few flat-ish metal parts with a familiar shape to them, and realized it was a crushed helmet! 3D puzzle style. I searched well and long for other bits belonging to it but with no luck. Looks like there might be possible to get some of its original color showing after cleaning so it ll be a fun autumn project.
Nearby I had another signal, and I saw that I had dug it before, last season maybe. I opened it up again anyway to check, and it was a large piece of something I had found on the very end of a dig once and given up on because I had been too exhausted. Now it was early days and I was full of energy so I spent the next hour getting the part dug out. It was some kind of large box that I suspect it is from a vehicle, and underneath it was another large item, also a bit of a mystery part still. On the bottom of this hole I saw porcelain! It was a broken cup and when I got it to the surface I was very surprised to see Mickey and Minnie Mouse! An unusual find in an old Wehrmacht camp. I found it very funny that the Mickey drawing showed him digging.
Next I searched around the area where I had found the scope part and pocket watch body last time. Food tins were strewn around there and was the cause of most of the good signals. I did pick up some coins between them though. It was a leather wallet that had rotted away, and it held six small coins, a tiny key, a few buttons and a bullet from a rifle casing. I found a couple of M39 egg grenades, and a signal under a heap of branches was a Notek headlight. It was a bit smashed but the internal frame and the glass were intact and are good spare parts to have. Together with the lamp was a fraction of a vehicles license plate, with some goodwill one could barely make out the "WH" on it.
The next few hours was quite uneventful but with a lot of digging. I found one dumping pit, but it was full of bolts, nails, food tins and other rubbish not worth saving. Also I had moved into a very polluted section of the forest. Birds are dragging food wrappings from some nearby containers into the forest so one gets a variety of good signals all over the place which makes the search very frustrating. I found a few relics between the garbage before I ended the search. I dug up the largest cream tube I have ever seen which was a bit funny, a pair of goggles, a doorknob and the rests of a harmonica. Walking out of the forest I picked up a NATO used flare and a fork from the Norwegian Army. The best thing I found on my stroll back to the car was a whole bunch of ready blueberries. Seems that next week I will start foraging berries alongside the rust :)
Maybe I ll be back out digging on Friday, but for sure I ll be in the forests in the weekend if weather allows since the Girlfriend is gonna do some work on her fieldproject :)
Nearby I had another signal, and I saw that I had dug it before, last season maybe. I opened it up again anyway to check, and it was a large piece of something I had found on the very end of a dig once and given up on because I had been too exhausted. Now it was early days and I was full of energy so I spent the next hour getting the part dug out. It was some kind of large box that I suspect it is from a vehicle, and underneath it was another large item, also a bit of a mystery part still. On the bottom of this hole I saw porcelain! It was a broken cup and when I got it to the surface I was very surprised to see Mickey and Minnie Mouse! An unusual find in an old Wehrmacht camp. I found it very funny that the Mickey drawing showed him digging.
Next I searched around the area where I had found the scope part and pocket watch body last time. Food tins were strewn around there and was the cause of most of the good signals. I did pick up some coins between them though. It was a leather wallet that had rotted away, and it held six small coins, a tiny key, a few buttons and a bullet from a rifle casing. I found a couple of M39 egg grenades, and a signal under a heap of branches was a Notek headlight. It was a bit smashed but the internal frame and the glass were intact and are good spare parts to have. Together with the lamp was a fraction of a vehicles license plate, with some goodwill one could barely make out the "WH" on it.
The next few hours was quite uneventful but with a lot of digging. I found one dumping pit, but it was full of bolts, nails, food tins and other rubbish not worth saving. Also I had moved into a very polluted section of the forest. Birds are dragging food wrappings from some nearby containers into the forest so one gets a variety of good signals all over the place which makes the search very frustrating. I found a few relics between the garbage before I ended the search. I dug up the largest cream tube I have ever seen which was a bit funny, a pair of goggles, a doorknob and the rests of a harmonica. Walking out of the forest I picked up a NATO used flare and a fork from the Norwegian Army. The best thing I found on my stroll back to the car was a whole bunch of ready blueberries. Seems that next week I will start foraging berries alongside the rust :)
Maybe I ll be back out digging on Friday, but for sure I ll be in the forests in the weekend if weather allows since the Girlfriend is gonna do some work on her fieldproject :)
Holders for rifle buttstocks.
A nice piece of cutlery.
Oil- or water can for MG.
Broken helmet.
Large mystery part #1.
Large mystery part #2.
Finding Walt Disney stuff in a WW2 German camp is unusual.
A padlock was on the bottom of the pit.
Coins!!
Remains of a wallet and its contents.
A hatched M39 egg and two unhatched ones.
What was left of a vehicles license plate.
Notek lamp.
A funnily big cream tube. Toothpaste for giants?? :D
Goggles.
Harmonica.
Doorknob.
Modern stuff.
The blue gold.
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