Very interesting relic site

[kryptosdaddy]

Most of this stuff was dug out of battlefields so the condition is less than mint! lol. Alot of different things here and some rather disturbing helmets, along with some great period pics and battlefield maps.


http://bluegrayrelics.com/


Enjoy.

 

[Gene]

SWEET!!!!Pretty nifty site!!!

 

[nerdling]

Wow those are some crazy finds. That makes me want to take my metal detector to Europe :geek Of course the stuff I find here I can't sell. I don't feel that it is right. So it all goes into my ever expanding collection of stuff.

 

[kryptosdaddy]

Here in the South we have our Civil War digs and revolutionary war sites, but most of that stuff is long gone now. At my father's old office/warehouse we would walk the cotton fields nearby after a rain and find arrow heads and old farm trinkets- this ^ WW2 collection is just awesome! I wonder if they dig in the El Alamein site in Egypt? that was a huge battlefield.

 

[nerdling]

I watched a documentary about El Alamein awhile back and they were showing somebody out looking for surface relics and there was stuff just everywhere. But the guy said that there are still mines in some places also. You should check out www.warrelics.eu. There is a battlefield archaeology section and it is just amazing what is found in Russia alone.

 

[kryptosdaddy]

Thats an understatement, what did the Brits call that minefield? The devil's garden or something? It was miles deep and stretched across the entire front of the battlefield.

A 'safer' site is in Tunisia, the set for the Tatooine scenes in the first Star Wars film is said to still be full of trinkets.Although it has been picked over for the last few decades.
Apparently they left the entire skeleton of the giant snake or whatever and lost a ton of filming equipment and props in a sandstorm that destroyed the set! Thats something I would like to dig around for.