My metal detecting trip around the Ruhr Pocket

[himselff]

Me and my friend flew down to Germany for some detecting in the Ruhr area



My detektor brother





Fisher F2 detektor, nothing fancy but works


























Soldier grave in the woods. Died from artillery shrapnel








Just under the leaves besides the tree, not deep in the ground.


Someone was cooking here





20mm and the casing is about 14cm high. think its some kind of flak ammo.
On the bottom it says: 40 9b P490 and there is no damage on the detonator cap so its unfired.
Found out what the p490 is:
P490 Hugo Schneider A.-G., Werk Altenburg, Germany, rare fabricator i read.


A camera film container


We dont know what it is?





8x57j lots where found


Gasmask, has some markings on it, even found one of the eye rings


Flare casing with bullet hole


Blue tipped 12,7mm think it is fosfor so i dug it down, we even found silver tipped ones.


Hmm dont know what rifle this is?


K98 Bolt


Some kind of food tin


Think its some sort of detonator from a grenade or artillery shell, dangerous probably




And then I found this =)













K98 Bayonet


Still some leather from the frog on it











Cleaning it







The scabbard was in real bad condition so it broke some when i got the knife out, so now I am cleaning the blade to try and se the markings.

We also found alot of old coins and musket ammo etc.
I will upload some pictures of my german dogtag and some other stuff I also found.

Here is some more pics




No clue??


Some old buttons and 2 musket bullets. The pin is unidentified.


Was told it is a bell from a hunting dog from a long time ago but not sure








Gasmask eye ring without glas


K98 ammo pocket





Dogtag..to bad condition to se any text though


What caliber is the left one


As above


2 old coins


Same as above but flipped


Old coin but cant se what year or so,same coin as above.


This is metal plate with a sailship on


Some very old thing i think

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Wow, great finds! I really like the K98k bayonet. Only that would make the day worth while! Cannot wait to see the other pictures.

[STG44]

thank you for sharing your pictures

[Steve T]

Awesome finds ! Love the K98 Bayo.

Steve T

[zwerge]

Very nice finds,the rifle bolt you found is from a Italian Carcano rifle.

[himselff]

Ah thanks.Where they used in germany in the war or post war?

[michael77]

Fantastic finds

You really need a Porta quote as a signature

[himselff]

Fantastic finds

You really need a Porta quote as a signature

Thanks!
Tes i am looking for a quote,but as you know they are pretty long quotes from porta

[crazy horse]

nice finds, especially the k98 bayonet, they are my favorite bayonets from ww2. can't wait to see if you can find out the maker & date if possible. nice.

[WW2Hunter]

Nice finds, love the bayonet
The detonator you found is from a 81mm Gr34 German Mortar shell.

Grtz steven