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Three Belt Buckle Thursday

7/20/2017

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First day in a long time with some sun peeking through the clouds, so I packed my things and headed out to stroll the forests with the metal detector. I wasn`t really sure where to go today but ended up at the Gebirgsjäger capitulation site after a little driving. To begin with I picked up some ammo casings and a couple of horseshoes and struggled a bit in the thickets when I saw metal laying on the surface in front of me. It had only alittle moss on it and I immediately saw that it was a German hot food canister. It didn`t have the inner part and it had rusted hole in both the lid and the bottom of it. It is always a good sign when metal is on the surface so I found a place for my backpack and searched around. I found several parts for German Model 39 egg handgrenades, but damned if I could find any grenade body,only the ignitor pull thing and the bits where the Brennzunders go. I dug out a ton of springs and wire framings from a matress but only a step away from the matress I discovered a small ditch where the Fisher gave lots of different signals, and the ditch was leading to a overgrown pit!!
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Ammo casings.
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Horseshoes.
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Hot food container.
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Parts for M39 egg handgrenades.
I found the start of the ditch and began pulling out rusted tins and bottles as these pits and ditches often are filled with, but more interesting items as well popped out in a pleasant frequency. Small medical- and perfume bottles, Rosodont toothpowder boxes, lots of cream tubes, a couple of Finnish coins and a bayonet scabbard. I scraped away more soil using my bayonet and saw the face of a Heer belt buckle. I love to find belt buckles so I won`t complain that it was a steel buckle and not a alu one. The ditch was ca a meter wide but quite shallow so I kept working towards the pit several meters away. Suddenly I found another belt buckle, also a steel one, and then a third!! I was just a big smile by now,dirty and covered in ants and mosqitoes.
Way past dinnertime and I still had a few meters to go before the pit I decided to dig another half meter and then retreat back home since I was hungry and bags and pockets already full. On the last section of the day I found a soldiers canteen and a couple of Leuchtpistole signal flares, one broken,or prehaps cut down to a shot glass, I ll know when its cleaned.
So I filled back what I had dug and placed back the top squares I had cut out of the forest floor so it all looked nice and tidy after me and made a plan to be back here after coffee tomorrow.
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For that good look.
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Dental care.
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Bakelit lid, didn`t find the box yet.
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Tip of a bayonet scabbard.
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Clay bottles are not often found, but its my third so far this season.
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The bayonet scabbard and some bottles.
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Pile of relics.
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Shoepolish tin.
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Always lovely to find belt buckles.
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It has a nice leather tab still in ok condition.
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Food tin and part of soldiers boot.
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Finnish coins.
metal detecting ww2 relics treasure hunt hobbyhistorica world war two battlefield recovery military archaeology
The second belt buckle.
metal detecting ww2 relics treasure hunt hobbyhistorica world war two battlefield recovery military archaeology
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A third buckle!
Picture
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Rear of the belt buckle. This might look good when cleaned.
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Canteen screwcap and top of broken canteen.
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Bike brakes.
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"Trench-art" box.
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Rosodont and tiny bottle.
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Hooks for equipment straps.
metal detecting ww2 relics treasure hunt hobbyhistorica world war two battlefield recovery military archaeology
German canteen.
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Broken coffee cup.
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Signal flares
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The three Heer buckles together.
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Done:)
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