2 Hours 60+ Targets Excellent Results

[Whitehunter]

Hi all,
Spend 2 hours detecting

Finds: .303's, buttons, button stick, kit bag lock, base plug, shrapnel, coins (pennys, halfpennys and a sixepence)

Could any one tell me what the german badge is and the fusiliers badge

Many thanks,
Happy hunting

John

Also went into my local dealers this morning and brought a war medal £10 which i thought was a good deal

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi John, the "German" badge with Swastika is actually a British National War Savings Committee badge from WW1.

Cheers, Ade.

[Whitehunter]

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[Whitehunter]

Hi John, the "German" badge with Swastika is actually a British National War Savings Committee badge from WW1.

Cheers, Ade.

Thanks Ade, I have never seen one of these before

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi John, oddly enough they dropped the design for WW2 LOL!

Cheers, Ade.

[Steve T]

Excellent haul for 2 hours John

Good old fragile 303's.........bloody things fall to bits as soon as look at 'em half the time ! Only ones I've ground dug that I could rely on to not break apart are sand dug ones. Did you manage to get a headstamp off any of them ?

The base plug may clean up well enough to get a date off it. Be interesting to see

Where were you digging by the way (not the location but the 'type') ? Old gunnery range, airfield or barracks site ?

Cheers

Steve T

[Whitehunter]

Excellent haul for 2 hours John

Good old fragile 303's.........bloody things fall to bits as soon as look at 'em half the time ! Only ones I've ground dug that I could rely on to not break apart are sand dug ones. Did you manage to get a headstamp off any of them ?

The base plug may clean up well enough to get a date off it. Be interesting to see

Where were you digging by the way (not the location but the 'type') ? Old gunnery range, airfield or barracks site ?

Cheers

Steve T

Hi Steve,
I havn't cleaned any of the .303's but there all dated 1940's

i will clean the plug off for you in a min

My guess is that it was a encampment for the troops waiting for D-Day. Its the same place i found the tommy helmet.

[airwarrior]

v nice finds

[Whitehunter]

Here you go Steve sorry for the Crap picture i quite enjoy finding these because there always a different one to collect

[Steve T]

Very nice

I get totally excited when I find one for exactly the same reason ! I even have one made of brass in my collection, which is rather unusual

Steve T