Three Pits Tuesday

This weekend there was no digging. My brothers visited me and our parents so I had a nice relaxing weekend together with them, but today I was back in the forest. I had to finish the pit I began digging on Thursday so I took direction towards it, swinging the metal detector in front of me. I dug a few signals and found some k98 ammo and some scrap metal and modern rubbish before I noticed a little dump in the forest floor. The Fisher gave of a nice mixed signal so I dug it open. It was a small dumping pit with a few nice items. I pulled out a few losantine bottles, a gas mask canister, a leather pouch with goggles inside, it was a alu canteen there, some bottles and a few other bits.

Some leather bits.

Gas mask canister.

Pioneer wire and whats left of a zeltbahn.

Skin cream jar and part of a soap box.

Canteen.

Leather pouch with dispatch rider goggles.

Goggles.

Nive bottle, a signal flare and some tubes.

75 cl.

When I had filled back the hole I walked a bit further and found the hole from thursdays digging. I widened all the sides until there was no more metal and then I began digging to find the bottom of it. It didn`t take too long as I had dug most of it before the weekend, but some items came out from the ground. I found a small porcelain jar, dug out the lid for it on thursday so it is nice to have it complete. Then I found another canteen, a piece of a signal flare, a leather scabbard for a knife,could be for a Finnish Pukko knife, and a leather pouch for Erkennungsmärke, but no tag. When it was empty I filled it back and continued to search for more signals. 

Porcelain jar for skin cream.

Signal flare with the bottom cut off.

Fork and food tin, and a valve of some kind.

Mystery parts.

Knife scabbard.

Leather pouch for keeping the EKM.

Canteen.

Continuing the search I had a good signal instantly, I had to use the pinpointer to locate it and it was a German coin. A 10 Reichspfennig I think,but will know for sure when I`ve cleaned it. 
The next signal the Fisher gave off was again a strong mixed signal so I took off my backpack and opened up another dumping pit. It was a good layer of rocks on top and the ground was also rock hard here so it was difficult to dig at first, but when I got that top layer away it was sandy and easy to dig. It proved to be quite a big pit this, I dug it for a few hours and removed a lot of rubbish, but inbetween a few nicer items got touched by a human hand again after  70 years. It was mostly leather bits that had survived in this pit, I found two k98 ammo pouches,one was in a sad state, but the other one was quite nice and surprisingly it had a bayonet frog stuck on the back. The other leather bit was a fieldshovel belt hanger. I also found some flares, a few k98 casings, a rifle cleaning kit, a losantin tablet box and a rosodont box. On the bottom of the hole was a nice beer bottle, well marked.
It had been a good day,the bag was filled with relics and it was getting dark so it was time to leave back home.  

​Stay happy,,and muddy:)

German Reichspfennig.

Ammo pouch and three k98 rounds.

K98 ammo pouch.

k98 ammo pouch with bayonet scabbard attached.

Leather belt hanger for the field shovel.

Rifle cleaning kit.

Signal flares.

Bakelite boxes, losantine and rosodont,

German beer bottle made in Stettin, Elysium Brau.

Elysium Brau.