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Below you can dive into my little universe filled with metal detecting, militaria and relics, world war two- and military history, miniature modelling and relic art.
Gebirgsjäger Luggage Tags
Over the years I have collected a small pile of such tags which were attached to the soldiers backpack. All of them looks to be "field made"
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Mar 21 min read
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Fishing Equipment
All this fishing equipment has been found in dumping pits in gebirgsjäger camps during the last couple of years. The field kitchen units
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Dec 6, 20241 min read
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Toothbrushes & Toothpaste
I spent an hour sorting the brushes by color and the cream tubes after brands and ended up with 83 brushes, 49 tubes, 6 toothpowder tins and
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Nov 20, 20241 min read
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The Frost Is Back
I had some Tetra fire extinguisher racks piled up behind a tree from earlier in the season and wanted to collect them. I swung the detector
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Oct 21, 20244 min read
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Not Done Yet
A few minutes later another very good signal rang out. From under the moss came another amazing find! I saw a small brass square in the soil
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Oct 14, 20245 min read
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A Coinspill & Bits for Vehicles
The following signal was much better but was just a handfull of rifle ammo. 8mm Norwegian rounds for the Colt machinegun, but produced under
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Oct 7, 20245 min read
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Medal, Money & Snow
I followed signals around the medal for the next hours and the result was pretty good. Several well preserved coins, Finnish,German and Norw
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Sep 23, 20243 min read
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Lapplandschild Part 2 & 3
And I was right. It was full of metal. But wait! Wasn`t there an imprint on it, looking a lot like the top of a Lappland Shield?
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
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Helmet & Close Combat Knife
Only a signal or two later the first drops of rain fell. I picked up speed and in the next half hour I found a pocketwatch holder, a bottle
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Aug 26, 20244 min read
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Another Iron Signal Paying Off
Walking back to the parking place to head home I found a wallet with a few Finnish coins in and around it.
But I ended the day with
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Aug 19, 20244 min read
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E.T.`s Silver
I fished out an intact gebirgsjäger boot and several bits of helmet liner leather, chin straps and some k98 ammo pouches.
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Aug 12, 20243 min read
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Searching the Gebirgs Artillerie Quarters
Here you can see the ghost of the regiment number on the shoulderboard. "112" - Gebirgs Artillerie Regiment 112.
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Aug 5, 20245 min read
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A Badge for Baard
Earlier I had found a few nice things there, like EKMs and some medals and badges but the last time I visited I didn`t get any good finds,
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Jul 29, 20245 min read
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Medal Day
On my first trip I spent much of the day in and around the medical barrack in one of the Gebirgsjäger camps. I was checking signals until I
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Jul 22, 20245 min read
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Belt Buckle, Baby Walther & Board Game Bits
Tuesday morning, around 09 I was in the gebirgsjäger camp covering myself in bugspray, getting ready for some walking and digging.
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Jul 15, 20244 min read
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An Interesting Trench-Art Ring
I picked up a couple of signals on the way and found a shaving brush and two Dutch uniform buttons. Soviet POWs were sometimes issued
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Jun 30, 20244 min read
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A Kilo of Buttons
On the side of the lanterns a full gasmask container and a single gasmask had been dumped. When I had cleared one side of the dump I turned
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Jun 24, 20245 min read
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A Very Annoying Find
It was a beautifully made Finnish ring. Two parts, the band and the shield with the Finnish lion. Usually these were made from cutting the
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Jun 17, 20244 min read
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Still frost in the Ground
Some of the signals I just had to give up because of the ice, but after a couple of hours my pockets were heavy with smaller bits and I was
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Jun 3, 20243 min read
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Digging in the North, Season 12
It didn`t take long to see that the ground was still quite frozen. Most places we couldn`t dig more than a few centimeters before drills and
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May 19, 20244 min read
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