British amry dump - HUGE haul of WW2 relics - PIC HEAVY!

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Early last week my wife asked me what I wanted to do on my birthday...... 'DIGGING!' I replied......to which she shook her head, smiled, and said 'What a surprise!'. She's a good ol' girl.... :)

Anyway, I did indeed go for a dig at a favorite site of mine. This British army dump site has produced some amazing finds over the years, but the dig on my birthday was one of the best ever. Not only because of the kind of thing coming out, but also the sheer quantity of relics I recovered.

Apologies for the number of pictures, but it really was a superb day.

If you don't want to look through the pics and prefer video, here is a link to a video of the dig....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHerT-ufJbM



If you do want to see the pictures, here we go!

Everything before cleaning......







And now after cleaning.....

Lee-Enfield and Sten oil bottles along with Vickers cloth belt starter tabs....





......more.............
 






The Vickers starter tabs were fairly standard, and joined the 200 or so I already have. However, 2 were very unusual....



The reason they were unusual? They appear to be unit marked. Never seen them unit marked before.






........more..............
 


Bren oil bottle



Bakelite spike bayonet scabbards, including some nice No 4 'Victory' scabbards.





K98 butt plates, trigger and mag housing and a Luger magazine.....from a British army dump in the UK! Amazing....



 
Tripod mounting bracket for an MG



Slide from a Browning M1910/22



Very small pieces of barrel from both a No 4 and No 1 Lee-Enfield



Rear sights from, of all things, a Vetterli Vitali rifle





Another rear sight, (not tracked the weapon down yet....)

 
Lee-Enfield No 1 Nose caps. Note the length of the bayonet lug on the top one. We believe this is for an Arisaka bayonet.



Lewis spade grips



Lee-Enfield and Long Lee butt plates



And the best find of the day?

Has to be these two items.

Trigger & mag housing from a Lee-Enfield training rifle along with a practice bolt from the same thing!




A truly remarkable day and I am still cleaning the 30 kg of Vickers 50cal cloth belt starter tabs and brass strips I recovered, along with a bucket of other miscellaneous buckles and clips!

:)

RRPG
 
Aalways interesting to see what you find! looks like you had a successful day! Thanks for sharing - some reallyneat stuff! :)
 
Are you sure that's K98 bottom metal? I thought only the commercial Mausers had the lever-type floorplate releases.
 
rightside - Kind of. They chopped them up it bits, burnt them, then crushed them down with a tank (we've spoken to a guy who was based there).

bedbugbilly - Thanks :)

TRX - You are probably correct. Someone on another forum has pointed this out. :)
 
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