EKM, Ring & a New Detector

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.*

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.*

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.*

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 :)