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Originally Posted by August
Could you imagine rooting around in your back yard and digging up a Viking helmet? Man that would be neat!
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helmet would be neat, but how about a land mine, a mortar or heavy artillery shell?
In Poland, the most frequent reason for temporary closures of building sites in the cities situated near the border with Germany is finding the aforementioned "objects" (mostly artillery and mortar shells). It happens especially in the cities which were turned into so-called "Festung". What is more, people still find weapons and light/medium artillery ammo in their basements.
There is also a place, sth like 60 kms away from the place I live, which used to be Africa Korps' training ground and after the war it served the same purpose to the Soviet troops. People go there to "officially" pick a few mushrooms while their intention is to scavenge anything which has a historic value.