Battlefield finds in the ground...

WOW two great photographs, very good detail, many thanks for showing them.

Kevin in Deva.

Nice pictures Mihnea.So if we may find a german paratroper helmet here in Romania it might have belonged to a Romanian paratrooper?

Unless you find it in Baneasa, no.

Why do you say that Victor?

Knowing that they came from different parts of the country...I think it is still a possibility one could find a forgotten para helmet somewhere in Roumania.
It is a known fact that the soldiers used to came back at home with some of their equipment. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Why do you say that Victor?

Because the 4th Paratrooper Battalion only saw action for a short while in the area around Bucharest.

ANDI,
this topic is about "Battlefield finds in the ground...", not what some soldier swiped from the military and brought home.

Ok....but after that short period...they dind't fought anymore, like the German paratroops fought like other infantry men?

Like I said, the 4th Paratrooper Battalion only saw action for a short while in the area around Bucharest after 23 August 1944.

Thanks.

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Nothing to do whit militeria but here are a few pics whit a metal object i found under verry old pavated forest road. Looks like a pendant from the bronz-age What do you think?

Ancient weight measure perhaps.....

That looks to me like a small loom weight or a fishing net sinker, and judging by the rust around the central hole, it is made out of iron, not bronze.
Of course, that raises some problems, since the two items previously mentioned would have normally been made out of stone (prehistory and antiquity) or lead (midle ages), so it could be a weight measure.
Anyway, judging from the corosion present on the piece, I'd say it looks medieval, but I have a problem with the black finish - that is normally the way you see one such object in a museum, after being soaked in sodium carbonate to clean out the rust and then stabilized with a solution of tannic acid and water. Normally, iron artefacts are rusty and muddy when being taken out of the ground.
If I were you, I would take the piece to a museum to find out exactly what it is.

Edit: PS: were there any arheological digs in that area?

This post has been edited by Wings_of_wrath on May 22, 2006 06:46 am

I heard of an arheological sit aprox 3 km away from the location i found it.
Also, another person found in the area a small oval stone that has an eye scupted on it. The stone was up on a hil, they whanted to build a monestary dig, and found that.
About my pice, i thought it was made from bronze becouse it has a shade of yellow... however maby at that time they cold not made pure bronze, maby it contains some iron too, is kind of mixed, when i found it it was rust all over it, i cleand it whit the [peria de sarma] it still has some rust and small stones in it.
Do you have any ideeas at what musem to go?

Yesterday i found on the same forest road, a boot pice [toc] i think, but is heavy, cold this be from a solider's boot?