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Winter is Coming

10/3/2016

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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.
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German bottles.
Hall`s Wine Tonic and a 300ml medical bottle..hobbyhistorica
Hall`s Wine Tonic and a 300ml medical bottle.
Red Army enamelled cup.
Red Army enamelled cup.
trenchart boxes
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.
metal detecting ww2 relics
Digging the dumping pit.
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Some of the soldier boots.
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Barrel bands.
bottles and food tins.Soviet pow ww2
Bottles and food tins.
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Dont know what this was used for, but could look like something kitchen related.
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Soldiers was supplied with small chess games.
German soldiers chess game
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.
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Axe and metal bottle.
Nicely preserved shovel.metaldetecting german camp
Nicely preserved shovel.
Spoon and boot heel iron.
Spoon and boot heel iron.
5 Reichspfennig ww2 metaldetecting
5 Reichspfennig.
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