My relics of 1918 civil war

[Aquila]

First sorry for my bad English . I have collected Finnish civil war stuff several years. I collect both red and white guard stuff. Had a detector last year and started to dig civil war battlefields around my hometown. Area is big and many good sites are gone . I detect forest that had very much activity during the Battle of Tampere 23.-5.4. 1918. Battle was biggest ever fought on Scandinavia before WW2 including bitter street fighting and heavy artillery fire. I have quite big collection now, many sites were untouched before I get there.
Some of my relics here (red and white guardist costumes are from local museum, just posted them here).

 

[Aquila]

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[dwayne sueno]

wow. those sites have got to be a little eerie.
i think you win the 2009 Patience Award.
very interesting.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I got abdominal cramps just looking at all that stuff. That was a Hell of a lot of bending down and retrieving. Kudos!

 

[allen]

that is quite an awesome collection of cw relics you have !!

 

[Jon Phillips]

Nice! I see a harmonica reed mixed in with the stripper-clips and shells in the bucket.

 

[Ramitt]

no civil war siteis complete without a few reeds.

 

[Cuthroat]

Are those musket balls? Or balls from some sort of anti-infantry grenade/claymore/artillery shell?

 

[Aquila]

Are those musket balls? Or balls from some sort of anti-infantry grenade/claymore/artillery shell?

Shrapnel balls, more info of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell

More reeds, these are from same hole. Found from battlefield area but reeds were deeper than usual cw relics here. I don´t know who dropped these, might be earlier than Finnish cw

 

[Tank69]

wtg now thats some awsome finds

 

[Aquila]

poliice

I had police last year in my home because they are collecting weapons, grenades, explosives etc. German WW1 shell fuse appeared to be very dangerous. It was destroyded by finnish army. Also another german shell fuse here was destroyed. Also I donated dozens of live cartridges, old handgun, brass knuckle, two live panzer bullets found from dumpster and rusty ww1 white/german fuse to the police to be destroyed in legal way.

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.