Slow day and an AP Grenade...

[Westfront]

With only one field left and even this has no site, just near one the options have dried out. My buddy got a nice celtic silver there yesterday so we gave it a second try today. It's close to the Dec. 1944 front line so WWII stuff was expected. Shrapnel was eyeballed everywhere and finds were sparse. Hoping for the one good find. We managed 2 1/2 hrs before a heavy thunderstorm stopped us. Too bad, it just felt right there...

Usual brass with some unusual 20mm casings

Musket balls

Buttons, cauldron foot, buckle part and a weird piece of

Closeup. Heavy, you can't scratch it easily with a piece of bronze cast in, about 1 1/4" in diameter, looking like a pouring neck?

Coins, zinc and aluminum, so probably also WWII related.

My finds of the day, flint blade and heart stone. The heart is whats left from the the raw flint after splitting blades and scrapers off.

And the grenade.... German 50mm AP shell with bottom fuze. Quite dangerous and i couldn't call the bomb disposal because of the long weekend after bank holiday yesterday. I had to carry it to the corner of the field and rebury for later pickup by the officials next week.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!!

 

[Fat]

.....That grenade story is the craziest thing I have read in awhile..... if it goes boom now are you in trouble, if you survive that is..

 

[CRUSADER]

Well I'm sure you saw what happened after Cru'dad got his silver, so it was definitely worth returning.
This time of year does force you to try tough places, but like you say, your just aiming for 1 good find & it can like mine, one of the best!
Not sure on the bronze thing but could be a left over bit of metal working.
The flint made it all worth it & if you have no other options, grid the whole field.

 

[pepperj]

Nicely done on the flints.
That grenade would of made something slam shut if I'd dug it!
Makes one wonder how many times over the past 75 yrs it has been moved around from working the fields.

 

[islamoradamark]

thanks for the cool pictures

 

[Elvis]

Wow!!!! Cool finds!!!!

 

[Rmeav8r]

Nice work! I’ve still got some WW2 eyeball finds from the forest near Arnhem. I wish I could go back!

 

[Westfront]

Well I'm sure you saw what happened after Cru'dad got his silver, so it was definitely worth returning.
This time of year does force you to try tough places, but like you say, your just aiming for 1 good find & it can like mine, one of the best!
Not sure on the bronze thing but could be a left over bit of metal working.
The flint made it all worth it & if you have no other options, grid the whole field.

I'll try again tomorrow, there must be another one somewhere....

 

[Westfront]

Nicely done on the flints.
That grenade would of made something slam shut if I'd dug it!
Makes one wonder how many times over the past 75 yrs it has been moved around from working the fields.

Thanks, love the flint too!
I don't think the grenade has been moved around often. Due to crop rotation it had been in the sugar beet harvester soon if on top. Also the thick rust is a sign of laying deep without much movement. Years ago we had sometimes 10 or 15 shells found in the winter season, now it dries out with 1 or 2 a year. Good sign, but still places here that are heavily ammo infested.

 

[Westfront]

thanks for the cool pictures

Thanks, got me a cheap led lighted photo cube. I'm happy to have good lighting now.

 

[uglymailman]

That old ordinance would make me pucker. Nice flint! Good luck.