Hi all,
as we are currently experiencing a golden Autumn here in Germany usually I am out and searching at the weekends. Winter will arrive soon enough. But this weekend it was enough searching on Friday and relax Saturday and Sunday. Maybe some pictures from the last hunts might be interesting for somebody.
My searches brought me to battlefields of the 1500s and the 1800s. As so often, on both occasions much more WW2 stuff was found than contemporary pieces.
Here is a US WW2 Garand ammo clip
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/AmmoClip6mm85.jpg">
followed by some WW2 ammo boxes of unknown nationality
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Blechbehaelter.jpg">
These pieces were found on a hang so not too many people went there after WW2.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Hang.jpg">
German K98k ammo bag
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/K98MunTascheUndPatronen.jpg">
Among the most unpleasant remains of WW2 are 2 cm grenades, either duds...
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Blindgaenger.jpg">
... or complete cartridges. This ammunition is considered unstable, especially the duds, and photos is all I take.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/2cmPatrone.jpg">
Besides musket balls and fragments of hollow cannon balls I found a personal first. This lead item
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Schrapnell.jpg">
was probably used to fill hollow cannon balls of around 1800 for additional splinter effect.
Also, some non-military items were found. This bronze object
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/TierGriffEvtl.jpg">
is not identified yet. It is broken and shows an animal with an open mouth, probably a fish. Zoomorphic pieces like that are sometimes part of a strike-a-light.
To finish this small finds panorama, here is a chunk of bronze weighing 126 g. It was found in an area that was settled in bronze age times and indeed I hope the item is some 3000 years old bronze raw material waiting to be re-melted into a spear head or whatever. Unfortunately, most likely it will not be possible to date this item. Could be 100 or 3000 years old.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/BronzeBrocken.jpg">
Greetings from Germany,
Thorsten
www.adventurehistory.com
as we are currently experiencing a golden Autumn here in Germany usually I am out and searching at the weekends. Winter will arrive soon enough. But this weekend it was enough searching on Friday and relax Saturday and Sunday. Maybe some pictures from the last hunts might be interesting for somebody.
My searches brought me to battlefields of the 1500s and the 1800s. As so often, on both occasions much more WW2 stuff was found than contemporary pieces.
Here is a US WW2 Garand ammo clip
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/AmmoClip6mm85.jpg">
followed by some WW2 ammo boxes of unknown nationality
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Blechbehaelter.jpg">
These pieces were found on a hang so not too many people went there after WW2.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Hang.jpg">
German K98k ammo bag
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/K98MunTascheUndPatronen.jpg">
Among the most unpleasant remains of WW2 are 2 cm grenades, either duds...
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Blindgaenger.jpg">
... or complete cartridges. This ammunition is considered unstable, especially the duds, and photos is all I take.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/2cmPatrone.jpg">
Besides musket balls and fragments of hollow cannon balls I found a personal first. This lead item
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/Schrapnell.jpg">
was probably used to fill hollow cannon balls of around 1800 for additional splinter effect.
Also, some non-military items were found. This bronze object
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/TierGriffEvtl.jpg">
is not identified yet. It is broken and shows an animal with an open mouth, probably a fish. Zoomorphic pieces like that are sometimes part of a strike-a-light.
To finish this small finds panorama, here is a chunk of bronze weighing 126 g. It was found in an area that was settled in bronze age times and indeed I hope the item is some 3000 years old bronze raw material waiting to be re-melted into a spear head or whatever. Unfortunately, most likely it will not be possible to date this item. Could be 100 or 3000 years old.
<img src="http://www.adventurehistory.com/tmp/20061022/BronzeBrocken.jpg">
Greetings from Germany,
Thorsten
www.adventurehistory.com