wandering the battlefields

[New Connaught Ranger]

Hallo if you lÖÖk at this link you will see lots of great WW2Battlefield Items from around Europe & more places. Including Tanks, Weapons, helmets etc..etc.. Some of it in fantastic condition.

http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk/page3.html

Happy looking, Kevin.

[ANDI]

Yeap, I have seen that site already. Those guys are doing an impressive war-archaeology activity. Also check the guys from Ukraine! (I hope they are not doing any grave-digging... ).

[ANDI]

Went on Mateias mountain today....trenches still visible, remnants of war stil visible on the ground....



Hard to tell but the row of stones from the right is actually the front line of a trench.

[ANDI]

Some M93, 6.5mm Mannlicher spent cartridges. The nature is trying to heal itself and "hide" this means of destruction...

[cipiamon]

How does a trench look over so much time, i was wondering that becouse i would like to know how it looks in case i see one

Great pictures, is this in the Marasesti area?

This post has been edited by cipiamon on June 24, 2006 06:48 pm

[ANDI]

As I said before, these pictures were taken on the Mateias mountain, Arges county.
You know......Mateias mausoleum is located on the same big mountain.

You can locate a trench quite easy, but first you have to know for sure there battles in the area that you are searching for. They look like a small ditch (after all these years....) approximatly 20 or 30 cm deep.
Knowing a little strategy will be better. You can determine the front line, the line of attack, etc....They are also located using the terrain, the best slopes, the best line of fire.
I will be back with some more photos.

This post has been edited by ANDI on June 24, 2006 06:57 pm

[C-2]

Something strange about the Mateias mausoleun;
Other they were only old people who did the fighting and died there,or the bones in the mausoleum doesn't belong to the soldiers who died there.
Very strange!

[Dragos1984]

hey guys who wants to go digging in the mountains..
lol.. !

[RHaught]

Well I will be in Iasi on Thursday and plan to head to the mountains a week later.

As for the trench question earlier looks like a continous filled in ditch. Look at US Civil War battlefield pics.

[ANDI]

In my trips to different WW1 battlefields, I have encountered continuous line trenches, alone or in a concentric disposal (no longer than 20meters, with space between them), foxholes, machinegun nests or Z type trenches.
So far all that I have found were "on the ground" items.

[ANDI]

Here are some more photos.
Two very rusty food cans. I took the lid from one of them with me back home, wire brush it an there were written, barely visible though, "xxxxxxx""ULEI", 400GR., 1916.

[ANDI]

Here is another M93, 6.5mm, Mannlicher cartridge case. It is amazing how well was preserved after all these years.

[ANDI]

The lid that I was talking about. Sorry for the quality of the photo.



And a 3cm fragment from a copper driving band of a shell.

[ANDI]

One 15cm piece of a shell. Quite big, quite deadly...
I found a lot of other small pieces and shell fragments in that area.

[Wings_of_wrath]

This is the same kind of spectacle you can find up in the mountains of Northern Moldova, especially the Rarau and Giumalau, allready talked about in this thread.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

By the way, would any of you be intrested in a trip to the Focsani-Namoloasa-Galati front later this summer? I hear there still are about 30 bunkers/sq.Km in the vicinity, althoough most are from WW2 not WW1. Once there we could also visit the batles site at Marasesti.