The last week its been raining a lot so I took the opportunity to work some shifts at my temp job to make some extra money. Today after work the weather had cleared up a bit so I decided it was time for some digging. I went out to one of the German camps where it had been a hospital building. There I was lucky and almost at once stumbled upon a quite large dumping pit. It had been burned so 90% of the metal had melted into blobs or just turned into rusted dust, and most of the glass in the pit had suffered the same fate. Now and again I found an intact item and as the hours went by the pile of small relics grew. I mostly rescued small medical ampoules and bottles, and some metal tubes for ampoules. I found a pair of glasses, but both the lenses had gone missing, and I found a somewhat broken porcelain plate with nice markings, even if it is a bit broken and a few bits missing from it. I ll glue it together and make something from it. A twisted and partly melted syringe was a bit amusing find, and so was the intact medical rubber glove that lay on the bottom of the pit. I pulled out five medical tools, three blades, one plier and one flat spoon like thing, some kind of spatula I guess. I also dug out a pen in very good condition, a few k98 rounds, a lamp and a tiny metal box which will be interesting to open to see if there is anything inside it.
After ca four hours the sun disappeared behind a heavy layer of dark clouds and just as I arrived back to the car the flood gates opened and it is still pouring down. Hopefully it have stopped until tomorrow coz I really want to get back out there:)
After ca four hours the sun disappeared behind a heavy layer of dark clouds and just as I arrived back to the car the flood gates opened and it is still pouring down. Hopefully it have stopped until tomorrow coz I really want to get back out there:)
Some of the hospitals foundations.
Items littering the ground. This one was the inner kettle of a soup container.
The growing relic pile.
Medical razors?
K98 rounds. One of them had exploded in the fire.
The spatula.
Small metal box.
Medical bottles.
Not sure what these were for. Prehaps ampoules or tablets?
Pliers.
Spectacles frames.
Melted syringe.
Rubber glove.
Some of the ampoules still had text intact.
Ampoules, a few with content still in them.
Metal tube with something inside it feels like.
More ampoules..
A nice glass dish.
A lamp.
A knife that once had a wooden handle.
The pen was a nice little find, I ve only found broken ones before.
Porcelain is always a welome find.
These I found all over the area. Used to splint broken bones.
And I found a coat hanger:)
A wehrmacht axe.
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