British army camp - Mine fuzes, 40mm Bofors and some rare cartridges!

[RRPG]

Hi all

Had a great dig on Sunday with some group members. Site is a location we had dug last year, so we knew what to expect from the site. The army blew the crap out of all the ammunition stored at the location at the end of the war. They dug a big pit, piled stuff in it, then blew it up......once a day, every day, for two weeks!

Had some great finds from the dig, with some items being quite common for this site, (mine fuzes and 40mm bases), but others less so. In fact, I added some rather rare cartridges to my collection this weekend!

Video of the dig.......



And now the pics.................

Everything before cleaning.





And now after cleaning......



No 152 safety cap, No 17 transport caps, 2 inch mortar transport cap, plus one I can't track down. Most interesting in this picture is the PIAT fuze holder, which is of the smaller type I had not got an example of. I have now!



Nicely marked No 17 transport cap



WD arrow and 1941 dated fork



Bottom sections from 40mm Bofors shells, all nicely marked and WW2 dated.




No 3 fuzes for the British Mk V anti-tank mine.




Nicely marked and dated......






Bottom left the tip of a nose fuze, probably from a 40mm along with two wingnuts off 50cal ammo crates. 50cal bullet on right and then 50cal cartridges. But WAIT! The two far left are very slightly different to the rest....slightly narrower and the shoulder begins too low down for it to be a standard 50cal......





They are only bloody 50cal VICKERS cartridges !!!! AWESOME!! Never found one before, not got one in the collection, now have 2*



Left to right......30cal die-cast drill round, made by Triang. 303 drill, (no percussion cap and no flash holes either). Next German 1940 dated 7.92mm and lastly American 30cal.



Headstamp of German cartridge.....



Head of 303 showing lack of percussion cap and flash holes.



20mm Oerlikon cartridges.....or at least what's left of them.









It was a great day.......



Hope you like the finds



Steve T

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[Peter Laidler]

That isn't a fork. That is a special tool issued to the crunchies that enable him to strip things that he's not meant to touch, let alone strip. It's also for shorting out the starter switch on Bedford and Land-Rover vehicles when the duty driver has left the keys in his billet. You can also use it for jemmying your way into things. In short, it was an early version of your Gerber or Leatherman multi tool. There were another couple of parts to the set. one was called a spoon that they used to eat with while the other was a most versatile screwdriver.