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Wehrmacht Camp

9/5/2017

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The last couple of days I ve tried to locate the remains of a Wehrmacht camp in a forest. Yesterday I roamed around for a few hours and saw to trace of it, but today I went further into the forest and after a good hour walking I found it! The Fisher made signals all over the place. By a small ridge must have been the camps stables coz I found lots of horse shoes and horse harness, plus a ton of wire bits strewn over the area. I strolled deeper into the forest to what must have been the camp. Here ovens and some barrells was scattered, and it looks like the place holds lots of small dumping pits.
I marked my position on the GPS and began searching, and tried to do it systematically and digging every signal. The first thing I dug out was a single spurr, but the other one was no where to be found between the small cluster of young sapplings I had gotten myself tangled into, it was just a lot of nails, some k98 casings and wires. When there was no more signals given by the detector I managed to get out of the shrubbery and searched another little grid. Here I found a few tent pegs, some 9mm casings, a crushed signal flare shotglass and a piece of shrapnel. The shrapnel might be from the fighting that happened in the area in 1940. 
​In a tree stump I found a k98 casing grown into it. Im always amazed by relics eaten by trees and roots. When I had checked all the signals in my little grid I decided it was time to check out one of the dumping pits. It wasn`t big, it just looked like a 50cm diameter dug hole but the Fisher gave off a nice strong mixed signal. Here was some shoepolish tins, a bunch of broken bottles, some cream tubes, a few uniform buttons and skin cream tins. I also picked up a small piece of aluminium that looked like a SS rune and stuck it in my pocket.
The hours had flown by and I hadn`t more time today so I had to stroll back to the road and on the way I dug up a few more k98 casings, stripper clips, a large crate handle and another tent peg which was quite bent.
Later when I was at home and emptied the pockets, I cleaned up the tiny aluminium piece and it looks like a fieldmade rune for a SS collar tab, ca 2,4 cm tall and the prongs broken off. In 1944 and 45 there might have been SS troops in this camp as the army having fought in Finland and the Murmansk front retreated parts of it stayed in the valley for a while and some capitulated here.
I ll try to get back there tomorrow to continue the search.
Now its bedtime so sleep well my friends :)
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Horse harness.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Buckle from horse equipment.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Lid for Fieldkitchen.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Barrells.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Spurr.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Tent pegs, alu and steel.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
K98 casing eaten by a tree.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
RG34 k98 cleaning kit.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Crushed signal flare shotglass.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
9mm casing and shrapnel.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Broken Cointreu bottle.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Cream tin and tubes.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Bent and twisted tent peg.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Large crate handle next to a uniform button.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Broken K98 casing and stripper clip.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Fieldmade SS rune after cleaning.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
Sadly the prongs are no longer intact.
hobbyhistorica ww2 relic hunting battlefield archaeology treasure hunting world war two digging diggers
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Chris Coxon link
9/6/2017 01:00:56 am

I needed no help in identifying the Cointreau bottle either LOL. I would think theres SS Collectors out there that would almost tear your arm off for that rune ;) I would have thought in the final days of WW2 there would have been frantic rebadging of SS uniforms to army insignia as stories of Soviets executing SS prisoners began to circulate, not a good time to be an SS Mann.

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