It was time for this seasons last searching together with Baard. His vacation is coming to an end and he has to get back to reality soon. We continued searching for old war relics from early morning yesterday. A friend of Baard has a garage where it was a Wehrmacht storage, next to the Gebirgsjäger camp and thats where we began. The place looked promising with several ditches and partly filled holes spread out through the forest. The first signal I got was iron and resulted in a large timber axe. The biggest I ve seen actually. It was next to the remains of a dug-out and inside there was a lot of good signals. The luck would have it to be nothing but wires and a piece of chain. Most of the ditches and holes was empty, or had some rations foil or practise ammo from more recent Nato and army excersises. Baard found a small ditch with relics from the wartime, but it was nothing much in it only a few nice bottles and several ski bindings, and in a small pit I found part of a ski pole and the spoon part from a Göffel. We figured this was not much to shout Hurrahs for, and decided to move into the next forest where we have been doing all our searching lately with somewhat better results.
We strolled the ca half kilometer through the woods while we swung the metal detectors in front of us. I walked closest to the road and picked up signal after signal, but it was all junk that idiots had thrown out of their car windows.
When we found the first of several barrack foundations we threw down the backpacks and did a quick sweep around the foundations before it was time for coffee. The summer had returned and it became a bit boiling in the open so soon I was back on my legs and went into the shade under the trees. Here I found a harmonica, some k98 casings and more rubbish from passing cars.
When we met at the backpacks for lunch a bit later Baard had dug up a nice Norwegian coin. A bit bent and from 1952 but a pretty neat find. I had found a wet marshy ditch where I picked up a uniform button, a cavalry stirrup, a strange looking horseshoe tool (at least thats what I think it is), food tins and a small glass jar. We were sitting next to a large stinging nettle patch and Baard the lunatic just wandered into it checking for signals. He proved there was metals under the soil there but to what cost? We dug a bit from the sides of the patch as one probably would get stung to death sitting down in the middle of the bushes. From the soil came a half rotten Gebirgsjäger boot, a pair of spurrs, a padlock and two lanterns for candles. It was a pain digging there though as the nettles kept stinging and when putting the shovel in the ground some of them would fall over and whip their stingers across face and hands. Not terribly comfortable, so we moved on into the camp area and made plans to chop down the nettles before our next attempt there.
The rest of the day we dug up some gaming pieces, M24 grenade parts, stripper clips and rifle casings, a field shovel, some cream tubes, a wallet and a silver spoon. Also a small chewing tobacco tin with a name engraved, a large wrench and more of the mine parts we found last time.
The day had passed way too fast and we could agree that it had been a very nice trip out in the nature even if none of us felt we had gotten any really good finds. It ll be a year until next time Baard will be back in the North, but I am hoping to get a trip out again one of the next days. So until then, Keep Smiling :)
We strolled the ca half kilometer through the woods while we swung the metal detectors in front of us. I walked closest to the road and picked up signal after signal, but it was all junk that idiots had thrown out of their car windows.
When we found the first of several barrack foundations we threw down the backpacks and did a quick sweep around the foundations before it was time for coffee. The summer had returned and it became a bit boiling in the open so soon I was back on my legs and went into the shade under the trees. Here I found a harmonica, some k98 casings and more rubbish from passing cars.
When we met at the backpacks for lunch a bit later Baard had dug up a nice Norwegian coin. A bit bent and from 1952 but a pretty neat find. I had found a wet marshy ditch where I picked up a uniform button, a cavalry stirrup, a strange looking horseshoe tool (at least thats what I think it is), food tins and a small glass jar. We were sitting next to a large stinging nettle patch and Baard the lunatic just wandered into it checking for signals. He proved there was metals under the soil there but to what cost? We dug a bit from the sides of the patch as one probably would get stung to death sitting down in the middle of the bushes. From the soil came a half rotten Gebirgsjäger boot, a pair of spurrs, a padlock and two lanterns for candles. It was a pain digging there though as the nettles kept stinging and when putting the shovel in the ground some of them would fall over and whip their stingers across face and hands. Not terribly comfortable, so we moved on into the camp area and made plans to chop down the nettles before our next attempt there.
The rest of the day we dug up some gaming pieces, M24 grenade parts, stripper clips and rifle casings, a field shovel, some cream tubes, a wallet and a silver spoon. Also a small chewing tobacco tin with a name engraved, a large wrench and more of the mine parts we found last time.
The day had passed way too fast and we could agree that it had been a very nice trip out in the nature even if none of us felt we had gotten any really good finds. It ll be a year until next time Baard will be back in the North, but I am hoping to get a trip out again one of the next days. So until then, Keep Smiling :)
A huge timber axe.
An interesting knife.
Bottles.
Ski bindings.
Spoon and part from a ski pole.
Harmonica.
Uniform button.
A stirrup.
Glass jar, food tin and a mystical horseshoe tool.
Norwegian coin from 1952.
Butterfly enjoying the sun and a Fireweed plant.
Spurrs.
Gebirgsjäger boot.
Lanterns.
From a cart wheel.
Gaming piece and a button.
Stripper clip, button and gaming pieces.
Medical cream.
Part of a binocular.
A small propeller.
Wallet.
Chewing tobacco tin.
Silver is always a joy to find.
I think this is part of the lid for a jar.
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