Winter is Coming

As the headline says, Winter is coming. Before the weekend I could see snow on the mountain tops and every morning it had crept a bit further down towards the valley,,a horrible sight. The temperature is falling as well and at the moment it is +1 degree Celsius. Also it was raining hard all weekend, but I didn`t let that stop me, there is plenty of digging to be done before the cold makes the ground become like concrete.
Since Friday I have been searching a forest where it was both a Wehrmacht camp and a small POW camp. I continued on a dumping ditch I located last summer and finally found the end of it. Relics poured out of it but mostly it was bottles and rotted soldiers boots. I found a few small boxes made by soldiers or POWs which was inteesting. None of them had any engravings and was a bit damaged, and I found two unfinished boxes made from the little alu fish tins.

German bottles.

Hall`s Wine Tonic and a 300ml medical bottle.

Red Army enamelled cup.

Small zink boxes.

Two meters away from the ditch I could see a part of the forest floor was like sunk in a little so I made a sweep with the Fisher, and it told me to dig, so I did. It was ofcourse a dumping pit. The next hours was spent digging it, but no good stuff had survived all the years underground. Here was also a bunch of boots and bottles, but I was lucky to find a few small pieces from a chess set before I refilled the pit.

Digging the dumping pit.

Some of the soldier boots.

Barrel bands.

Bottles and food tins.

Dont know what this was used for, but could look like something kitchen related.

Soldiers was supplied with small chess games.

Chess pieces.

I had an hour or so left before I had to go to work so it was no point starting on another dumping pit so I walked around picking up single signals and taking a few pics of some of the stuff on the surface. I picked up an axe, a small metal bottle and a shovel. The next bits was a boot heel iron and a silver or neusilber spoon and the last signal I dug today was a nice 5 Reichpfennig coin.
When I got to work there was a kid there,prehaps 9 years old, he had read about me in the newspaper and was very interested in war history so I gave him the coin, he`ll have more fun with it than me:)
Hopefully the frost and snow won`t arrive yet so that I can get some more digging done.

Axe and metal bottle.

Nicely preserved shovel.

Spoon and boot heel iron.

5 Reichspfennig.

On the surface: