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More Depot Digging

7/18/2017

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Monday turned out to be very busy so I had no chance getting to the forest, but after work today I was out there again. The weather was a bit better today, no rain and even a few minutes of sun, but ofcourse I wasn`t in the forest for enjoying any weather. I was there to enjoy searching and the smell of fresh soil and old rust, there is little that beats the feeling a trip into the forest gives me.
There was something odd about the first large signal I dug today, it took me a few moments to realize it, but I had dug it on one of my very first trips to this place. It was several German ammo cannister lids, but too far gone, so I covered them back up so I can dig them again another time :)
A few meters away the Fisher gave a very interesting signal and now I was sure I hadn`t dug it before because I had to chop away some thick roots to be able to dig it open. Another dumping pit! 
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The first large signal of the day.
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Old lids dug out once before.
It took a few hours to search the dumping pit and it gave just a few interesting relics. Also I had to be very carefull digging because it was full of broken bottles and window glass.  I once had a long and thin piece of glass stabbed almost through my hand and I don`t want that happening again. Some large chunk of chicken wire and a wheel rim was also difficult to remove as the roots was growing through them. Again I found some mortar powder charge tins, different rifle casings, a couple of nice bottles, some stick grenade parts and a couple of percussion primers. 
After I had filled back the dumping pit and made the forest floor look nice again, I strolled around for a few hours. I found some more rifle casings here and there but then I wandered into a part of the depot where it was no signals at all, it was so silent that I had to sweep the detector over the shovel to make sure it wasn`t dead. I took another direction but for maybe an hour more no signals anywhere. It felt like a Deja vu. I took that as a sign that it was time for dinner and went home.
Hopefully tomorrow I ll go check out another forest, and leave the depot until it has dried up.
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Chicken wire.
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Dumping pit.
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Be careful when digging.
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German battery with part of newspaper stuck to it.
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Mortar powder charge tins.
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battlefield relics wehrmacht ww2 hobbyhistorica metaldetecting metal detector relic world war two treasure hunt
Small relics.
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Percussion primer.
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This must have been a huge bottle.
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The rim took forever to get loose from the roots.
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Some glass tubes, I wonder what they was for..
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Rifle casings.
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