Monday evening I went out for a wee stroll with the Fisher. I only managed a couple of hours before the word got around any every mosquitoe in the district came to feed. The finds were far apart but I did find a mess kit, a very nice and large padlock, some k98 rounds, a toy gun and a silver plated cigarette box before I evacuated.
Yesterday morning I woke up early to yet another warm and sunny day. I contemplated mixing some Deet in the coffee to help keep the tiny vampires away but I guess it would taste too nasty so I chucked it into the digging kit instead.
I wandered around in the forest picking up signals which mostly turned out to be modern rubbish which I put in the bag to dispose of later back in "civilization". I dug out a couple of headlights again, one of them had the glass still intact, and I also found an ashtray, of the field made kind and a 40`s tourist plate with a Viking ship and "Norge" stamped on it, I like to find those, they are pretty kool.
I moved into a section of the forest I haven`t searched too much and after hitting two smaller patches of nails and wires I stumbled across a small dell in the ground where the Fisher gave of some crazy signals. It had to be a dumping pit, but would it have anything good???
I threw my backpack away and opened the forest floor and I very quickly began pulling interesting stuff from it. I spent around four hours searching through it making sure I didnt miss anything. It was lots of stuff in it and when I reached the bottom it had become a pretty deep hole. I had found lots of the small porcelain skin cream jars, some medical- and some alcohol bottles, several pairs of boots and coins and gaming pieces kept coming out from the sand. Lots of toothbrushes and different cream tubes together with a few pioneer demolition charges was down there too. When the pit was empty I dug a deeper hole on the bottom and placed the charges there before I filled it back up, so they wont be found again anytime soon to present a threat to anyone.
Several razors and soldiers metal cups saw the daylight again, a couple of the cups had engravings. I dug out some nice bakelite bits, a few field torches and a bunch of coins, mostly Finnish ones. One coin was extra large, but it turned out to be a Eismeer Front medal when I got it cleaned up later in the evening. Continuing I found four pocket knives, a butterknife carved from wood, a smoking pipe, some porcelain tourist stuff probably brought back from Finland and a nice big porcelain bowl marked with a blue Wehrmacht eagle, produced by the Norwegian Porsgrunn Porselen. In a rusted food tin I pulled from the roots fell a deck of cards, and a familiar looking brown paper bag, a War Merit medal with swords, with the ribbon still intact!! What an amazing find that was!!
When the show was over I was warm, sweaty, sand everywhere and covered with mosquito bites so I filled the pit, covered it up so the forest looked clean and untouched again and I went to buy a few cans of cooold Cola and a big icecream before I drove back home. In the evening i spent two hours cleaning some of the stuff before I finally collapsed after dinner.
Hopefully there will be more pits like it this season :)
Yesterday morning I woke up early to yet another warm and sunny day. I contemplated mixing some Deet in the coffee to help keep the tiny vampires away but I guess it would taste too nasty so I chucked it into the digging kit instead.
I wandered around in the forest picking up signals which mostly turned out to be modern rubbish which I put in the bag to dispose of later back in "civilization". I dug out a couple of headlights again, one of them had the glass still intact, and I also found an ashtray, of the field made kind and a 40`s tourist plate with a Viking ship and "Norge" stamped on it, I like to find those, they are pretty kool.
I moved into a section of the forest I haven`t searched too much and after hitting two smaller patches of nails and wires I stumbled across a small dell in the ground where the Fisher gave of some crazy signals. It had to be a dumping pit, but would it have anything good???
I threw my backpack away and opened the forest floor and I very quickly began pulling interesting stuff from it. I spent around four hours searching through it making sure I didnt miss anything. It was lots of stuff in it and when I reached the bottom it had become a pretty deep hole. I had found lots of the small porcelain skin cream jars, some medical- and some alcohol bottles, several pairs of boots and coins and gaming pieces kept coming out from the sand. Lots of toothbrushes and different cream tubes together with a few pioneer demolition charges was down there too. When the pit was empty I dug a deeper hole on the bottom and placed the charges there before I filled it back up, so they wont be found again anytime soon to present a threat to anyone.
Several razors and soldiers metal cups saw the daylight again, a couple of the cups had engravings. I dug out some nice bakelite bits, a few field torches and a bunch of coins, mostly Finnish ones. One coin was extra large, but it turned out to be a Eismeer Front medal when I got it cleaned up later in the evening. Continuing I found four pocket knives, a butterknife carved from wood, a smoking pipe, some porcelain tourist stuff probably brought back from Finland and a nice big porcelain bowl marked with a blue Wehrmacht eagle, produced by the Norwegian Porsgrunn Porselen. In a rusted food tin I pulled from the roots fell a deck of cards, and a familiar looking brown paper bag, a War Merit medal with swords, with the ribbon still intact!! What an amazing find that was!!
When the show was over I was warm, sweaty, sand everywhere and covered with mosquito bites so I filled the pit, covered it up so the forest looked clean and untouched again and I went to buy a few cans of cooold Cola and a big icecream before I drove back home. In the evening i spent two hours cleaning some of the stuff before I finally collapsed after dinner.
Hopefully there will be more pits like it this season :)
Cigarett case.
Mess kit and cream tube.
The local sheriff`s revolver.
Headlights.
Field made ashtray.
The plate with the viking ship.
The pile grew quickly :)
Glass and porcelain.
A lighter.
Soldiers shaving kit cups.
Bottles and boots.
Butterknife carved from wood.
Goggles.
Enamel cup.
Toothpaste.
The first few gaming pieces, a ornage smoke candle box, empty, and one of several enamel plates.
Demolition charge.
Brass ring.
Field torches.
Bakelite and Göffel.
Tourist porcelain thing.
Razors and toothbrushes.
The porcelain bowl.
Deck of cards.
The War Merit Cross:)
Orange bakelie butterbox, sadly it had a hole in the lid.
More enamelled stuff.
Sorted and ready to pack.
Leave no trace:)
Some of the finds cleaned up :
"1942 Eismeer Font 1943"
"Norge" tourist thing.
Box for cod oil vitamin pills, produced in Lofoten Islands.
Bakelite torch.
A small frying pan.
Pocket knives.
Razors.
Eating utensils.
Gaming pieces.
Money.
Toothbrushes and paste.
Bakelite and soap dishes.
Bakelite container with measuring tape.
Cards.
The shaving kit cups was mostly in bad condition. Two of them had "trench-art" one with nature scenes and the other with a sunset and a warship, reading "Zum Gedenken Norwegen"
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