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Three Dumping Pits & Two EKMs

10/12/2017

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Today it was time to clear out a few of the dumping pits I had started earlier this autumn, so around lunchtime me and the girlfriend headed out to one of the old  Wehrmacht camps. The weather was fine, a bit grey but perfect digging temperatures. 
The first pit was a shallow one which I had dug half of so it didn`t take too long to complete. It didn`t hold so many interesting bits but it had to be checked coz last time I had found two EKMs in it. After an hour and a half it was refilled and a few relics found their way into the backpack, a scissor and a tweezer, a large spanner, a beer bottle and two american made spark plugs. A few meter away from the pit we had a interesting but weak signal and when we dug it out we found a Norwegian coin from 1957.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
A little tweezer.
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Found a nice pair of scissors.
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Scissor will come in handy..
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Top of a broken bottle.
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U.S made spark plugs.
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Piece of a Norwegian newspaper.
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A large spanner.
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"Modern" coin.
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We walked to the second half-dug dumping pit, one I had stopped last time I was in this camp. It soon proved to be much bigger and deeper than I had expected. For hours I kept digging it and it was full of rusted tins, enamelled bowls, field batteries, burned cloth, charcoal, a couple of shovels and several melted bottles which was very nice looking, and a field made copper ring! I kept fighting with a large piece of chain stuck in the ground, but in the end I got it loose and found that the pit might in fact be a whole ditch. I tried to find the bottom of the pit but a huge 2-3 mm thick steel plate lay down there and it seems there is stuff under it as well. It started getting dark so we decided to go home and return tomorrow to try get the plate out so we collected the interesting bits and refilled the pit.
While I had been struggling with the chain my girlfriend had wandered around with the detector and found a interesting signal for me to dig, (she appears to be too lazy to dig it herself) so we re-located that signal and removed alittle bit of the forest floor. Ca 15 cm down we found a aluminium food tin, and thought that was all, but ofcourse we double checked it with the pin pointer and it gave off some more signal. This turned out to be another dumping pit and we spent another hour digging it out, and I am so happy she had taken the detector for that stroll coz between some beautiful bottles we found not one but two Stalag tags!! Sadly one of them was too far gone to save, but the other one was beautiful and had a well made field repair. We also found two pocket knives, a POW made knife and a worn down Wellner butter knife. The last item we pulled out here was an awesome 1000 ml brown medical bottle.
 As we strolled back to the car the darkness crept in between the trees so we had completed the dig with perfect timing.
Unless there is snow storm tomorrow we ll be back for more digging:)
Stay muddy my friends, and Keep Smiling:)
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Boot heel irons.
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Cloth.
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Some of the cloth was in surprisingly good condition.
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More cloth.
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Melted 0.7 l bottle.
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Field battery.
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Copper ring.
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Enamel bowl full of burned paper.
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Brick marked with "2".
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Some tools.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Bakelite part.
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Rotted German winter guard boot.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Another melted bottle.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Shovel.
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Heavy duty chain.
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Food tin.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Mystery bakelit part.
Picture
Pocket knifes.
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Broken honey jar.
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Field made knife.
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Worn down butter knife.
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Too bad the top tag was in such condition.
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Some lovely bottles.
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hobbyhistorica ww2 metal detecting ww2 treasure hunters relic hunting battlefield archaeology
Soil monkey.
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The Stalag tag lightly cleaned.
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