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The Cobblers Pit

9/18/2016

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I have spent the last two days digging, it feels a lot better than having spent the weekend at the bar. 
Yesterday I continued digging the hole with the wheel, I cleared half of it, but now im stuck. Not sure if I will be able to get the wheel out from there. Laying across it is 2 or 3 corrugated sheets which are quite long and wide,and atop them is 1,5m x 1,5m x 2m sand, roots and forest floor and one or two more of the triangular ovens is in there as well. Will make another attempt tomorrow or one of the next days,and if I cant get it I ll ask the landowner if we can go in there with a mini-digger:)
I didnt find much stuff either, tons of rusted food tins and one triangular barrack stove was dug out, but between two of the spokes in the wheel I did find a thermometer in near perfect condition, marked "Wehrmacht",and walking back to the car I found another unissued EKM.
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The wheel and in the top corner of the pit you see parts of the triangular shaped barracks stove.
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Part from Mg ammo box and a part for a bunker stove.
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Bottles ,Thermometer and a porcelain jar lid.
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It is amazing it was not crushed by the metal and rocks thrown over it in 1945.
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"Wehrmacht"
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Unissued EKM.
This morning I decided to search another forest, a site which held a Heer camp, and was also used as a capitulation site for troops retreating from the Murmansk front passing through here. This place is strewn with signals and small dumping pits and is really exciting to search. Back in the oldendays it was a farm on the site and thee first signal I dug today gave me a little trip back there. A Norwegian coin, 1 Skilling Species , from 1820. 
 It didn`t take long before I had found a small dumping pit to dig, close to the camps kitchen so I hoped to find some porcelain cups or dishes or nice cutlery. The relic fairies had planned it otherwise, or maybe the cobbler had his workshop next to the kitchen. All I found was a few bottles and lots of leather bits and a little mountain of boot heel irons.
I then decided to stroll around to pick up single signals, but I didn`t find much of interest really, I didn`t  walk by any dumping pits either before it started raining heavily forcing me to retreat. I am for sure searching this site some more before the winter comes.. 
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1 Skilling Species. 1820. Norwegian coin.
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The cobblers pit.
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Boot heel irons.
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Finds from strolling around.
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Some kind of cream,manufactured in Dresden.
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A steel and a leather boot sole.
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A German canteen.
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