Wehrkraft

[bryn81]

thats realy interesting stuff, your very lucky

[Dave8472]

Interesting item there, and thanks for the info about it. All the WWII items I keep finding here are shrapnel from anti-aircraft rounds, I live in the main flight path to London, and very close to what used to be a munitions factory, I am interested in History, and it is amazing how much stuff is in the ground, do you find much shrapnel there as well ?

Dave

[stargazer]

Pretty rare Item I would have thought.

[bryn81]

hi Dave,as for schrapnell there is tonnes of it here,you got to be careful where you search if you want to keep your legs and arms,I had plenty oy live rounds,lots of phosphor tubes,they where droped after the cities where bombed,they even burn under water,some good sites are undetectible dew to schrapnell,
hi ,stargaser and bzrn81,yes you find interisting stuff over here,found plenty of third rich badges,was with an English mate a while back and we found a hitler youth camp,he found a nice dagger,the base was a Lions claw,blade was rusred away...I found a hitler youth party badge,few coins and rusted cans..this place is like any where when it comes to detecting,you guys have got some great interesting history yourselfs...Ive seen some realy great finds from the uk

would love to detect over there have a major interest in all WW2 history, dnt really get the oportunity to go searching for items along those lines as i live in north wales, might venture somewhere in the future tho . plenty of roman and medievil sites to keep me busy at the moment tho

[What ho chap!]

Never really fancied digging recent battlefields myself. Something I can't quite put my finger on puts me off.

[stargazer]

Third Reich stuff is very in demand and commands high prices . I know a friend who found a 1937 Reich Mark complete with swastika. I think he got a fair amount when he sold it.

[Ian]

I'd be very happy digging WWII stuff up, I can relate to it much more with relatives being involved etc.

Ian

[essexray78]

id love to find some ww11 stuff so many stories about almost everything you may find buried out there . one story sticks in my mind ,my late dad used to work in the british museum as a security guard (he was there fro almost 35 years ) and a metal detectorist strolled up to the gates with a big ruck sack and pulled out a complete spitfire cannon he found while searching down near dover somewhere .how effing cool would that be ? as a result they found a lost downed spitfire which is now marked as a grave as the pilot was still in his cockpit when he crashed. they believed before that he ditched in the channel . hats off to those guys

[essexray78]

id love to find some ww11 stuff so many stories about almost everything you may find buried out there . one story sticks in my mind ,my late dad used to work in the british museum as a security guard (he was there fro almost 35 years ) and a metal detectorist strolled up to the gates with a big ruck sack and pulled out a complete spitfire cannon he found while searching down near dover somewhere .how effing cool would that be ? as a result they found a lost downed spitfire which is now marked as a grave as the pilot was still in his cockpit when he crashed. they believed before that he ditched in the channel . hats off to those guys

[What ho chap!]

I recommend Belgium if you're into that sort of thing. From personal experience, because you've had the first and second world wars there, it has alot of stuff. Just walking along a path through a ploughed field you can pick stuff up off the ground. Put me off it a bit though when I pulled out a live artillery round, nearly died from shock/explosion! There's so much unexploded ordinance the tractors there are armour plated on the bottom to protect the farmers.

I left with:
Barbed wire
Spent rounds
Live rounds (gave to farmer to put in his pile of arty shells though)
Shrapnel
A British helmet, very rusted