Part I - Metal Detecting at the Swedish Tavern Site, page 10
Recovering WW2 Poket Watch Mechanism and Brass Casings
Yes, of course, it was the pocket watch mechanism. I could not date it correctly, but I knew it was not really old.
Then I dug up an unfired round for the WW2 German K98 Mauser Rifle.
In 1943, the small battles were taking place throughout the area, and the common WW2 relics were in abundance everywhere. Perhaps, the watch mechanism belonged to the same time period.
Nikolai also recovered the WW2 relic - an unfired round for the anti-aircraft gun or machine gun of a large caliber.
Digging up the WW2 junk was frustrating, but there was no way around it, especially while trying to pinpoint the site of a small tavern. I even started thinking that the results of my map research could be incorrect. But at this point, I had to keep digging up every non-iron target, even if it was a brass casing.
By this moment, I had searched most of my "sector" except a narrow strip of undetected ground running along the side of the triangle-shaped patch overgrown with vegetation. This small patch was adjacent to the road and was most likely the place where the tavern used to be. And that was our "last resort".