Photo: PAP 2014 / Tomasz Waszczuk
Posted on 09/21/2014 12:27:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Three Teutonic battle axes from the late Middle Ages have been found by engineers who remove World War II artillery shells left the forests in the Forest District Wipsowo (Warmia and Mazury). Historic weapons will be donated to the museum.
Engineers stumbled upon the historic axes by chance, while searching the woods metal detectors. The weapons have been initially identified by an archaeologist as late-medieval Teutonic battle axes.
Iron axes were close to each other, shallow underground, among the roots of trees. "It can be assumed that this is a deposit that someone left for better times. Perhaps the person fled, hid the weapons and never returned to this place" - told PAP Agata Trzop-Szczypiorska, responsible for archaeological supervision of the engineers’ work.
According to the archaeologist, clearing the forest of unexploded shells has just begun, so there is hope for more finds. After completion of the work, Teutonic axes will be preserved and donated to the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.
Maciej Gorczyca of Telkaz, head of the engineering work in Forest District Wipsowo told PAP that approx. 95 hectares of forest would be cleared of unexploded shells by the autumn of 2015. Engineers found thousands of World War II artillery shells of various calibres.
"Probably when the Germans retreated before the Red Army in 1945, they blew up their ammunition storage. Force of the explosion threw the shells around" - said Gorczyca. He emphasized that the unexploded shells his squad found were rusted but armed with detonators, and therefore dangerous to humans.
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Photo: PAP 2014 / Tomasz Waszczuk
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Doesn't strike me as a great strategy.
“He emphasized that the unexploded shells his squad found were rusted but armed with detonators, and therefore dangerous to humans.”
Well, at least Bambi is safe.
I hate when those detonators rust.
Makes them unreliable!
That headline just rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?
They need to build them to last!
:p
yep! :-)
:’) Has to roll off the tongue, it certainly doesn’t belong in the mouth. ;’)
No that can’t be! Adolf must have buried those axes to hide something from the Russians. He was planning to come and get them but he married Eva Braun and than committed suicide. Eva must really had a bad effect on Adolf! Those historians claim it was because the war was about to come to an end and the 1000 year Reich only lasted from 1933 - 1945. /s
Yeah. I’ll be the owners wished that their last acts had been to bury them in living meat, 2 or 4 legged.
Lots of retired military where I live (myself included).
Whenever you see a U.S. made car around here with a German flag front tag, it’s being driven by a Teutonic battle ax.
;^)
Years ago I saw a photo of several pistols that had been wrapped in a Confederate coat and buried. They were refound in the early 1970s with a metal detector. All the wood had rotted, and the pistols were rusted junk.
Years ago I bought an 1873 Winchester rifle 44/40 that had chinked in the walls of a log cabin. it was rusted up but still worked. Wonder what story it could tell as to why it was chinked in between two logs in the log cabin. I still wish I had it.
Then there are all those rifles at the bottom of lakes lost by FReepers.
Doesn’t look like much fun to be facing the business end of any of these, rusted or not.
My kind of woman - armed to the teeth!!
You would like me, then! :-)
The lake-lost weapons were slathered in grease and in airtight containers, I hope!
Mailbox flags.
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