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EKM, Ring & a New Detector

  • Writer: Inka
    Inka
  • Jun 8
  • 4 min read

Updated: Jun 9


a finnish ww2 ring. a shield with the finnish lion mounted on a brass band.

My plans for this weekends searhing and digging fell apart because of birch trees and rain. Yep, birch trees.

When I was young springtime meant allergy-hell. When the trees released their pollen my nose, throat, lungs and eyes became dry, runny, itchy and swollen all at once, making the act of living difficult.

I outgrew that after a few years, but the last couple of seasons the allergy have made its return, and this saturday it was worse than in many years. Naturally I had no energy for roaming around between even more trees so the trip out was cancelled, and today it is a river out there, which is great against the allergy, but worse for the sense of comfort we all love and cherish. Luxury problems.


I had two short, but great, trips out there to the gebirgsjäger camps earlier in the week though, and made a few very decent finds.

I also got my new pinpointer, aaand I just had to spend much of my upcoming next salary on a new fresh and shiny detector. A Nokta Legend, which I picked up from the post on wednesday.


On my first trip out I were checking signals for an hour before I stumbled upon a small trash pile in a sandy slope. I lured out some intact perfume-, medical- and beer bottles, and a few bits that looks like they belong to some pulley system. When removing more sand a pocket watch appeared, a bit destroyed, but a lovely find in my book.

A nearly intact officer collar tab and a RAD marked butterknife also came out of the slope together with a 10 pfennig coin and a pocket knife. And between a few bits of trash was a second butterknife, with the same RAD markings.


When I poked around the edges of the now empty pit with the knife and the pinpointer an oval metal disc fell out. An Erkennungsmarke! I saw it had numbers but couldn`t read it before I was back home and could give it a rinse.


The numbers on it had been hand engraved and so far I haven`t figured out what unit it belongs to. Perhaps it has some connection to the RAD marked butterknife. I hope one of you guys recognizes what unit it is.

a red and white thymolin zahn pasta tube from ww2
Thymolin toothpaste.
rusted parts of a harmonica
No more tunes from this harmonica.
a wehrmacht barbed wire carrier
A barbed wire carrier.
rifle casings with wooden bullet ww2 exersise ammo
Wooden tipped 7.92s.
triangular piece of metal with pulley part on the end
For some kind of pulley device?
brass pocket watch
The pocket watch.
wehrmacht uniform collar board
I think it is a collar board.
The butterknife. I hope it was silver, but it said Rostfrei.
The butterknife. I hope it was silver, but it said Rostfrei.
butterknife with RAD marking R.A.D. XXVI/38.
R.A.D. XXVI/38.
Grotan tabletten box
Grotan tablets. Not sure what they were for..
10 pfenning coin from world war two
10 pfennig.
a door lock
Door lock.
RAD butterknife
The second butterknife.
back plate of pocketwatch
The back plate of a pocket watch.
german ekm id tag with hand carved numbers
The EKM was a lovely find.
garrett pinpointer
To try extend the lifespan of my new pinpointer I gave it a protective rubber tip.
lovely day in the forest

The second trip to the gebirgsjäger camp this week happened together with a new metal detector, the Legend. I took it for a spin in a patch of forest I know very well, just to test it and trying to get to know it.

It picked up signals, which were mostly rifle casings, and its discrimination worked well, but I quickly understood I needed to study the instructions and settings a bit, and do some controlled tests with it. But I will make an own post about that I think.

After a while I turned it to "All metal" mode and quickly got stuck in a small garbage dump again. The reason for the strong iron signal I decided to dig on was a large karbid lamp, and a large and heavy mystery part. It has a ID plate partly intact which I hope some of you know and can share info on.

It was a lot of junk in the pit but out of the yellowish sand came a very nice Finnish ring, and a small fishing lure. The common style ring with the lion in the shield. Fantastic to find! Moments later another ring! A thin brass band, wedding ring style, but with no inscriptions.

In the edge of the opened hole a piece of coarse cloth stuck out. I carefully dug it free and it was a large mitten, possibly weawed from asbestos.

On route back to the car I dug on another good signal, a food tin, and together with it was a very interesting Kunststoff item. A bottle top made of some early synthetic material similar to bakelite, and it had the face of Bacchus. A very neat find to close the day.


Tomorrow starts a new week, and it is a holiday so if the moon and the stars allign me and the GirlfriendWife will make a trip to the woods and poke around for some treasures.


Enjoy your week :)

nokta legend metal detector
The first thing I did with the new detector was to paint up the button icons, coz they were impossible to see.
id plate on mystery part
The ID plate on the mystery part.
mystery part
other side of the mystery part
a ring in sand
A ring!!
Finnish lion on ring ww2
A really nice example of these popular rings.
replacement wedding band in brass
The second ring. A much simpler design.
cloth sticking out from soil
Cloth sticking out from the soil.
coarse cloth or asbestos mitten
The cloth was a large mitten, and I wonder if the cloth is asbestos, it kinda feels and looks much like an MG asbestos pad I have.
bacchus bakelite lid
The kunststoff lid with Bacchus.
flower
a grouping of the finds
The treasures.
german ekm XVIII 26061 B
XVIII 26061 B
lid with bacchus
backside of bacchus lid
the pocketwatch
backside of pocketwatch

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