Actually from Day One, lots going on down in that bunker they were working on. These are German Minenwerfer rounds. We'd call them mortar rounds. A batch are being carefully placed on a bed of soft sand for a trip across the site. The guys excavating them were told not to worry, the safety pins were in them. Then they found an isolated safety pin! Disposal was nevertheless uneventful.
Hot, muggy day on site. I was sweating a lot. To be fair I was shoveling snow a few weeks back now I am one half of a team clearing bricks, rubble, mud and ammunition from a cellar.
We got about half the dirt and crud out with three days of hard labor. Shovels and buckets.
More ammunition and such. The round balls are lead, from British shrapnel shells.
Non military artifact of the day:
An orange glazed clay pipe. It has a stamp on it that suggests a French or Belgian origin.
So you'd expect it was lost by a French soldier, as the Belgian army was not active here. You'd probably be wrong. A very similar pipe was found today next to the body of a soldier carrying German equipment and ammunition. A small bit of knowledge added to the knowledge of the Great War. German soldiers carried French pipes.
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