wandering the battlefields

Anyone interested in looking around Iasi? Will be in Romania for 3 weeks (last 4-5 days in Bucharest). Will be heading to Piatra Neamt to visit the godparents from my wedding (still do not understand this custom). Hoping to make it to Arad and Timisoara.

Going to Roman at the end of the week. Found a family friend who knows about the battle there and is going to help search the area. He also knows people who own private property that had troops fighting on it and is going to get permission to search there as well. Hope this comes through!

Some more pictures from the Mateias mountain.
Shell debries everywhere: here is a small one, approx. 3x3x1cm.



....and another one, approx. 20x4x2cm, sharp edges....



This post has been edited by ANDI on July 17, 2006 07:40 pm

Also found this in the woods, don't know exactly but I think is a part from the "fuze end" of a shell's body. It is made out of cast iron, has screw markings, the metal is curved on the outside (you can see the variable section of the metal, thinner on the top, getting thicker towards the bottom).
There are some numbers on it: 3049, close to the rim. It appears to have smth. between 100 and 115mm in diameter.

I have an obssesion (one of many ) for a while that there may be unexploded bombs under my house and yard.Since my house is buit where Baneasa airfield was...
With the help of a friend,I found a metalic object in the yard.I dag about 50 cm and found ...a metalic object (junk).
The problem is that my son ,keeps on diging day after day and wouldn't stop.

Great, buy him a metal detector!

All you have to do now is to give him Ludwig Jerrer's An Illustrated History of the World and you could form a great future archaeologist.

Cipi,good idea!
He's a minor,so thay cannot do him anything if he has a metal detector

Belive me,he 's working very hard,about two hours a day.
Like Indiana Johs said,a true arheologist is the one who spends most of his time in libraries.

Somewhere on the old Carpathian border...

One of many m93, 6.5Rmm, spent cartridges.




This post has been edited by ANDI on July 24, 2006 06:17 pm

...three of many scattered empty clips from the m95, 6x50Rmm austrian ammo...
There is also a fourth in the upper part of the picture, partially in the ground...

...two 8x50Rmm spent cartridges with an empty clip, protruding from the earth...

... one smashed gas mask filter, probably german or austrian....

...a 20cm long and 1.5cm wide, copper driving band of a shell...

....alpine front, reloaded....
Three austrian 8mm/m95 spent cartridges.

...and a couple of m93/6.5mm rounds...