Yesterday I spent most of the day walking in difficult hillside terrain trying to find any old metal. I did not have much luck in the rust departement but I got a whole lot of excersise and sun which is sorely needed after the long winter months. I found proof of German activity there in the forms of barbed wire fences, smashed stoves and lots of food tins, but very little other things. On my way back after many hours I got lucky and found a small coin hoard. 9 coins, 4 Finnish and 5 German. Two Flak casings hid under a few centimeters of soil but that was it. It is an area to get back to at some point I guess.
Today was also spent outside, in a slope, digging, gathering old war junk. Girlfriend and I had went out quite early to this site. Because she had forgot her magnifying glass, she couldn`t mess with the bugs, fry them or whatever science she does with them, so she got bored rather fast and went for a trek to higher altitudes, leaving me all alone with the ants. I tried to be quick, check the signal and move on to the next so that their little armies didn`t have time to swarm me and take me down. A few weeks ago I had found a bottle dump here, seeing the ground there had thawed I could dig it out now. It held many intact bottles but probably more broken ones. Most were wine, champagne and beer but I picked with me two cool vinegare bottles and two perfume ones.
Mid-day had passed and it was getting really warm so I tried searching the areas under the trees, of course the ants were way ahead of me. While I was digging out a couple of K98 Mauser parts I saw the metal detector an armlenght away, brown and covered in ants. They were trying to drag it away!! Almost too late I realized that just was a flanking manouvre by them. I looked down at my leg and they were grabbing on to the tip of my boot!! I got up grabbed the detector,shovel and backpack, which naturally overbalanced me and I tumbled down the slope like some noisy rock.
Having cleverly outmanouvered the dumb ants I continued the search along the bottom of the slope towards the car. For another hour I picked up a pair of ski goggles, a helmet liner and a cool little tea strainer. By now it was too warm for me to want to continue digging, so I found a nice spot by the river to wait for Girlfriend to return.
Tomorrow there might be a new site to check out :)
Today was also spent outside, in a slope, digging, gathering old war junk. Girlfriend and I had went out quite early to this site. Because she had forgot her magnifying glass, she couldn`t mess with the bugs, fry them or whatever science she does with them, so she got bored rather fast and went for a trek to higher altitudes, leaving me all alone with the ants. I tried to be quick, check the signal and move on to the next so that their little armies didn`t have time to swarm me and take me down. A few weeks ago I had found a bottle dump here, seeing the ground there had thawed I could dig it out now. It held many intact bottles but probably more broken ones. Most were wine, champagne and beer but I picked with me two cool vinegare bottles and two perfume ones.
Mid-day had passed and it was getting really warm so I tried searching the areas under the trees, of course the ants were way ahead of me. While I was digging out a couple of K98 Mauser parts I saw the metal detector an armlenght away, brown and covered in ants. They were trying to drag it away!! Almost too late I realized that just was a flanking manouvre by them. I looked down at my leg and they were grabbing on to the tip of my boot!! I got up grabbed the detector,shovel and backpack, which naturally overbalanced me and I tumbled down the slope like some noisy rock.
Having cleverly outmanouvered the dumb ants I continued the search along the bottom of the slope towards the car. For another hour I picked up a pair of ski goggles, a helmet liner and a cool little tea strainer. By now it was too warm for me to want to continue digging, so I found a nice spot by the river to wait for Girlfriend to return.
Tomorrow there might be a new site to check out :)
Cast iron oven part.
When I find these I always go "ooh,Gold!!", but then it isn`t.
2 cm Flak casings.
Two gaming pieces.
Another nice find.
Party stash.
Perfume bottles.
Weapon parts.
Angry ant.
Mystery part.
Goggles.
Facial hygiene items.
"Wacht im Norden" Frontnewspaper.
Helmet liner.
Tea strainer.
The coins cleaned up.
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