On a Scouting Mission

Two days ago me and the Girlfriend went for a scouting mission to a forest in the neighbourhood. We prepared ourselves and went out there relatively early and found a nice place to park the car. The first couple of hours we roamed around trying to find the site, but we had to confer with a couple of maps before we half eaten by mosquitoes found our way through the bushes and marshes to the correct plateau in the forest. Now finally the detector picked up something else than modern garbage, a piece of shell fragment from either the fighting in 1940 or from the dismantling of the massive ammo depot that the Germans had built here between the pines. Next we spotted the first of many earthen bunkers covering the area and went to work. The bunkers seemed to have been cleaned up pretty well, but we found traces from the occupants . We found  shovels, heaps of k98 ammo, partly rotted away leather equipment and ofcourse some modern plastic training ammo. In one bunker we found Brennzunders which we wisely left alone as we like to have our fingers intact.
While I was sweating and waving mosquitoes away the Girlfriend found a sunny spot on the edge of the bunker, having lunch and enjoying the view. As the afternoon approached and there was little blood left in us for the bugs to feed on, we stumbled across two-three huge pits filled with leftovers of 7.5 cm Pak ammo containers where we will spend more time in the coming weeks... so stay tuned ;)

Fragment from a grenade of some kind.

The mossies was extra agressive today.

If I had brought home the shovels I ve been finding I d have more than Fiskars factory by now.

Modern blank firing casing the military use when they are training.

Another shovel.

A bunch of 7.92 casings and stripper clips.

A 7.92 casing nicely turned into art by detonation.

A mystery bit turned out to be a common zipper.

Girlfriend enjoying life.

Brennzunder.

One of the bunkers filled with good old rust.

A Diggers paradise .

Pak 7.5 cm ammo container bits.