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Searching in the sun

7/9/2014

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One of my neighbours  has a interest in ww2 history and we had been speaking about making a expedition together. He remembered some helmets he and a friend found when they was young and wanted to see if we could find them. Early today we drove off to his friends place armed with shovels and the metal detector.  When we arrived we did a search in the area they meant the helmets could be , there was several good signals and we dug them all but found nothing but barbed wire , old tools and wire bits. The only militaria related find we had was a ring from a German Zeltbahn. As it is high-summer the search was very difficult because of  the vegetation , and it was really warm today and when we had become sweaty the horseflies started to mass around us too , landing un-noticed like ninjas on any bare skin and actually biting tiny chunks of the flesh , it is really painfull I can assure you!
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After a while we decided to search the heavy vegetated area another day with less temperature. We went back to the house and was served coffee and delicious sandwiches and spoke about the oldendays for a while. This guy owned a lot of the land around and could tell it had been a large German camp and a Soviet POW camp in a forested marsh next to the house. We strolled into the edge of it to have a peek , and sure enough , here was traces of many buildings and even a bunker. Sweeping over the ground the F5 indicated lots of stuff in the soil and here and there we saw the ground had sunken in alittle where it might be dumping pits or ditches. Without me even asking the landowner gave me permission to come dig the area whenever I wanted and showed me where I could park the car and insisted I stopped by for a coffee after digging. So we didn`t find any helmets today but now I have a big job ahead searching this large camp site , enough for several seasons.
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