The weekend is upon us and its time for digging, even though I have been doing that almost all week. I made a few hours searching on the capitulation site. The weather was a bit hot and the gnats were swarming, trying to make me loose it. I did my best to ignore the small biters and focus on the signals the Fisher kept giving me. Within the first hour I found two more of the dog tags, and kept on trying to find more of the same signals. There was a few but it was only bits and pieces of no interest.
Behind a fallen tree I had another "dog-tag signal" which sort of turned into a mixed large signal. Off with the backpack and starting removing moss and roots. Then there was a layer of rocks and I had to get them all out, the shovel was useless for this so I pryed the rocks loose with my bayonet. Now I started to see metal and lots of it. Here was some interesting old stuff, some of it in bad condition but some of the things was rather nice looking. A meter long enamelled scoop, probably for a field kitchen came out of there, zink dishes and small glass jars, a few boot soles and heel irons and some cutlery and forks. There was also a couple of canteens there but they was of steel and rusted to bits. In one corner things had a greenish hue to it so there had to be some brass stuff there. Removing some more rocks and I could feel some round shapes which loosened when I tried to pull it. Out came a large brass tube thing with a handle on top, it was marked with a white painted "6". Next items to see daylight again was also of brass. Three smaller tubes which looked to have a screw cap on one end. One of the tubes had a leather strap, and I realised they were for dogs. The strap was the collar, and the tubes was to put written messages inside. So for army dogs, a super interesting find. I will clean them up and I hope there still is a message inside. High hopes.
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