I got up really early today as I was eager for some digging. The weather report have been whispering about lots of incoming rain so there was no time to loose. After a little bit of driving I could step into the forest and meet with the mosquitos that were waiting for me. Almost instantly I had some good signal from the detector and spent the next hour mostly crawling from signal to signal. I dug out a German coin, a couple of tent pegs, a uniform button and a small dumping pit with several smaller bottles and a field torch with a battery next to it. After a while the landowner came to say hi and see what I had found. He pointed me to a shrubbery on a small rise behind his barn where it should be a Norwegian position from the fighting in 1940. There I found a whole pile of spent 6.5 mm Krag Joergensen ammo in great condition as they lay under a rock and had been protected from the elements all those years. Other than a ashtray , a piece from a ski pole and a few rusted food tins there wasn`t anything else to find there so soon I was back searching the camp site. Now I found a rather large dumping pit that I spent many hours digging out as it was pretty deep. It didn`t hold as much finds as I had hoped for but between a lot of champagne- , beer- and wine bottles was a nice MP38/40 "schmeisser" magazine. Another field torch battery, and a couple of Norwegian 7.92 excersise rounds, a losantine box, a bike tire pump and what looks like a half made trench art ring came out of the pit before it was empty.
The dumping pit was in an open patch in the forest so the sun had been boiling me good so I spent the next hours strolling around between the trees. Here I found a bunch of nails, wires and rusted crap, before a very good signal broke the monotony again. I just had to laugh when I saw what it was, I ve become familiar with those pointy edges by now...It was a War Merit Cross, a Kriegsverdienstkreuz, my third this season! Filled with a bit of new energy I searched an hour or so more but all I could find was a big engine starter crank, so at this point I decided to get back home for some food and a rather cold shower:)
The dumping pit was in an open patch in the forest so the sun had been boiling me good so I spent the next hours strolling around between the trees. Here I found a bunch of nails, wires and rusted crap, before a very good signal broke the monotony again. I just had to laugh when I saw what it was, I ve become familiar with those pointy edges by now...It was a War Merit Cross, a Kriegsverdienstkreuz, my third this season! Filled with a bit of new energy I searched an hour or so more but all I could find was a big engine starter crank, so at this point I decided to get back home for some food and a rather cold shower:)
German tent peg.
10 Reichspfennig.
Frostbite cream.
British ink.
German marmalade.
Field torch and battery.
Uniform button.
Tent peg, leather strap and a shaving soap jar.
Ashtray and a ski pole part.
Krag Joergensen ammo.
Axe head.
7.92 excersise rounds from Raufoss Ammunisjon 1940.
MP38/40 magazine.
300ml medical bottle.
There were lots of alco bottles in the dumping pit.
Maybe a trench art ring project that got abandoned.
Another field torch battery.
It was so great to find this medal.
A big engine starter crank.
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