As you may already know, it's always best to hit the shell with a hammer at the base so as to see if it is "live" or not, if it emitts a dull sound, then you're ok.
Quand on voit,encore aujourd'hui,ce que le sol nous rend... J'ai une pensée pour nos anciens,morts au front,dans la boue,sous cet orage métallique... Que leurs âmes soient en paix... A jamais...
my great grandfather and 629 men (18 officers ) were moved out a bit to left of the battle of Somme to secure a patch of land out of the 629 2 men died them 2 men were my grandfather and his best friend
Very poignant finding the buttons. But then we know the sheer carnage that took place during WWI. My great uncle died at High Wood. Yet you look at the landscape around it now. So peaceful and verdant.
Lol 😆 I was just thinking the same thing! I seen him leave the first one and said to myself "very wise move" then jumps to him taking a penalty kick with 100 year old he shell 😱
@@timadams7467 I was watching a documentary called the great war in numbers...according to this documentary at least a dozen EOD technicians are killed each year from the iron harvest that they collect from farmers and dispose of.
@@richardmessenger9474 that’s sad. You would think the farmers tillage equipment would explode them. The Verdun battlefield is still considered a red zone due to the millions of unexploded shells there. I read that because the ground was so muddy and churned up by the shelling that many of them just “plopped” in the mud and were still “live”😳
Its beyond reckoning the suffering that happened there . No matter what side they were fighting for the majority were peaceable young men with no malice pressed to fighting for the glory of others .
I can't imagine how incredible it must be to find such relics. Makes history come alive and confirms directly to the senses that WWI happened and isn't just a "true story" told through the pages of a book.
I would love to walk that field & find all the stuff about there. Just think of the horror stories that come with that stuff. God bless all who fought there & all the ones who didn’t make it back.
Battlefield scavengers are neither wanted nor welcome on the battlefields where so many brave men died and every now and then, these scavengers come a cropper from unexploded ordinance.
@@kevfit4333 ehh then again tho just because it's 100 years old doesn't mean it won't go off if the powder is still preserved it's highly likely it will explode look up videos of ww1 Shells getting exploded by bomb squads
in some places from WW1 battles hundreds shells, grenades and bombs are discovered each year...in some places (now they are woods) the ground is so dense stuffed with ammunition that even agriculture is forbiden...
That was the war that changed history around the entire world. The fact that remnants are still being found over 100 after the battles is frightening and sad. So many young men fighting a deadly battle with so many people lost. My grandfather (who was born in Germany but moved to the U.S. as a teen) fought against members of his own family in that war. He rarely spoke about it, but he once told me that war never solves anything. He passed away in the 1980's at the age of 92, and he was honoured by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, as he joined both forms of the military in that war. He fought in the Army on the border of France and Germany, then he was shipped home and he enlisted in the Navy to help sink submarines.
These battlefield scavengers don't care about that, and they also remove items that might at the least identify the regiment that the soldiers belonged to and whose regimental diaries and records could then narrow down whom the men might be.
Most likely?! I'd say without any shadow of doubt the buttons, belt clips and rounds of unused munitions came from the dismembered bodies of the fallen.... look hard enough and I've no doubt there will be bone fragments in there too.
It's like ploughing a graveyard unfortunately,the terror that was beheld on those fields is beyond comprehension.. brave men commanded on the most part by idiots sitting safely a long way behind the lines
@@ja37d-34 how would you reckon that.. not many high commanders led the way over churned up fields criss crossed with barbed wire into an onslaught of machine gun fire... again and again and again with no results.. clever guys those in high command..
@@kevos65 There is a common misconception that all higher commanders were insensitive to casulties. Which is certainly not the case. There is a lot more about this, the issue is way more complicated than stupid generals sitting miles behind the front. That is a very easy and stereotypical way of explaining it. Read some more and you will find out more.
@@ja37d-34 I have and do, from all the battlefields from France Belgium Gallipoli etc... madness and stupidity..I don't doubt someone had a brain somewhere but sadly history shows there wasn't a whole lot on show with decisions, tactics research and general proper planning eg wrong shells for the bombardment of enemy lines to destroy barbed wire,no planning there.. the thinking behind attacking fixed positions whilst laden with heavy equipment over muddy fields..the use of cavelery in some early battles when knowledge of the destruction of machine guns was previously evident...I could go on and on.. there were some field commanders who showed initiative like when following a creeping barrage instead of waiting for it to stop but overall disastrous decisions and tactics cost ten's of thousands of lives unnecessarily..the facts and figures are recorded
@@kevos65 Funnily you mention Gallipoli.. How about the avacuation? There was not that many options to attacking fixed psoitions. Not too many flanks on the western front.. The mistake with heavy equipment was made during D-Day too as well, look at the US assault troops.. Especially on Omaha.. Usually it is a lack of information or maybe the inability to understand it. Very rarely is it pure stupidity or evilness, spite. There is often an easy explaination and lack of info is a common one. Most people do what they think is right.
That’s all German bullets and buttons you’re finding. And British shell parts and shot from 18 pounder. So must be German front line. I found same German line covered in British fire going towards it all British ammo must of been an attack ,and that was 30 years ago and your still finding it’s just crazy
Going to the somme and ieper in my holiday. Don't think we need to bring our metal detectors, and i am aware your not allowed to detect in those places. But walking the fields is not illegal.
@@histoirekeo après il suffit seulement de demander a l’exploitant si tu peux utilisé le détecteur sur son terrain, mais bon la y’en a clairement pas besoins il suffit de se baissé
@@literallyowl4467 Unless of a direct impact, most of your body should be in one big chunk. The mud and the rain and the extra shell would bury the remains. There would be a chance of a second impact. If i remember well, so many shells were fired that the whole ground was like shelled at least twice per square meter. Gas masks and buttons are most likely found on on the torso so at minimum there is a torso near by.
That depends, if it’s for profit or not etc, I have wanted since a child to visit and stand in the fields where my uncle was killed between Ovillers and Pozieres , he was with the 1/6th Glos regiment, died 23/7/16 . And if I can go there and find some bits which I can display with his medals for the family, I bloody well will, lowest of the low, scum or not
"La primera guerra mundial fué una carnicería y una auténtica crueldad. Una guerra de desgaste en que se arrojaban los cuerpos de los soldados sobre los cañones. Una guerra sin sentido, una derrota aplastante para la humanidad. En definitiva, una guerra que no debió liberarse jamás"
Pick up old ordinance there is a chance that you will ended up in pieces. The chemicals in those rounds due to the environment exposure are not estable and they may react
Interesting. I walked these muddy fields with colleagues in 2016 and the amount of WW1 debris is staggering. That mud really is sticky and glutinous, fibrous almost, you can see in the footage.
@@Dignity_first if i am not wrong you have dick heads who pilfer what they can find with metal detector. Even going unto WW1 archeological sites at night taking away things and disturbing bodies the archeologist were working on. I think this video shows someone walking trough a field during "the iron harvest" where the agricultural plows turn the earth, bringing to the surface a lot of finds and ordinance. During that period there are a few tons of shells dug up as well left on collection spots by the road for the french démineurs to comme and collect. Certain Battlefield are still blocked off due to the toxic levels of elements in the ground and the french government has a backlog of a few hundred years worth of defusing of chemical shells to go through. It is said that it would take at least 900 years for the area affected to be demined and safe.
@@peter4210 if you want to be correct - check your own dickhead in the mirror first and then read again my question. I asked w/o meaning that I’m waiting somewhere with a metal detector on my shoulder. And the guy said literally about “finding and taking away relics”, not exactly “metal detecting”: semantically it means, that you can find anything while just walking by. Also, my point, that potentially you can find any object, which was owned by a soldier, who disappeared in a trench mud, to discover the history and to bring some peace to one family somewhere on the other end of the planet. I know what I’m talking about. This is the point, until the connection between times and generations haven’t disappeared completely. Until all those information haven’t erased by time.
@@Dignity_first i was not calling you a dick head. Just the people who went and plunderer archeological digs with metal detectors. They take away vital things that could help find the name to the body
On vois les habitués, repérer les grenades mills a œil ainsi que les "œufs" allemands il faut être aguerris mais juste après le labour surtout si il a plu c'est une bonne balade a faire , sans rien d'autre qu'un bon sac. bonne continuation et continués a être prudent .
Just try to imagine slogging through that sticky mud, and fighting a war at the Somme, or Verdun!!!!! There was nothing but carnage wrought on the troops on that battlefield, and it should be left alone as a memorial--- Not to mention-- all the unexploded ordinance just laying around in the mud------
I was unsure, so I checked with French and Belgian authorities this morning, what you have done is illegal. Farmers who turn up munitions as part of their normal activities are allowed to move shells. However, it's illegal in both countries to do what the video maker has done. Numerous prosecutions have taken place. Not only is it illegal, it's highly disrespectful to pick anything up from these battlefields.
je suis de la region et je suis passé encore passé devant 1 obus sur le coté de la route, ca fait 2 mois passé qu'il est là 😅🤫, tu habite ou @histoireKéo ?
The comment about hammers is sadly prophetic metal detectorist came across a metallic object.his companion said don't touch he replied saying if it goes bang you are right he hit it his companion was far enough away to not be hurt being right
I hope you believe this Some farmers whose land was once fought over attach armour plate under their tractors. Most ploughing MIGHT turn a shell over in a furrow, but better be safer IF one goes BANG!
@@von-Adler I had heard that casualties occasionally still occur. I would be fascinated with an exploration of High Wood, but I believe it is private property. Surely the commonwealth War Graves Commission have been there to collect soldier’s remains?
Some parts in lower sc is like this except it’s Indian arrowheads and hatchets. Few miles down the road on land that people haven’t walked in in decades you can walk over fields littered with civil war buckles, mini balls, not this much but more than you’d think. We’re at a point now where all of the smaller things are really on the edge of disappearing forever. I wish I could have walked this land 5-10 years after ww1 wen the majority of people really didn’t care.
Is it me, or is that the remnants of a jaw bone behind the grenades that he's just put down @ 6:50? Centre of frame behind the second grenade. Most people probably looking at the grenade and not what's behind it.
There is nothing "awesome" about battlefield scavengers, the awesome people are those soldiers that died on these battlefields, not the battlefield scavengers.
Perhaps the items should be left where they fell as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives defending Europe. My relation died at Ypres in 1915.
@tophatanimation8748 Returning items to family and regiment I guess is OK but not selling it. There are so many medals for sale online it sickens me to see it.
I wonder what they'll do with their findings. I believe while still uninhabitable, mote people should be helping to clean this place of scrap metals and such. There is still ordinance there though, so it would complicate things a little.
This is like "Curse Of Oak Island:" Except without the buttons and coins Gary bought off of eBay that were planted in the area he has already searched six times.
The buttons are disturbing artifacts as they are what's left of the uniforms that held the dismembered corpses........... and there are a lot of buttons.
@@bobbybates2614 Yes Chorine gas shells These shells are taken to Portland Down in the UK were they are stored and disposed … An interesting documentary on BBC I player about how dangerous that stuff is even after 100 years … must be treated with respect…
And the whiny sucks of today crying about the horror of having to wear a mask against covid. Real hardship. Try going through what these men went through. At the battle of the Somme 300,000 died with over a million casualties.
Why was all that acreage dug up ? Are they farming there?? Seems like there's enough relics in the earth to be a serious problem for a plow and tractor.
"They shall not grow old". Oh lucky them! Is that what we are supposed to think? I've always thought that line is the most twisted consolation. Probably dreamt up, like the fine memorials, by the Church and the ruling class to try to dampen down the growing discontent amongst ordinary people in the immediate post-war period when revolution was in the air. The war revealed to ordinary people that their 'betters' were in fact nothing of the sort and capable of organising nothing more than "legalised mass murder", as Harry Patch put it.
So maybe you.know this or maybe you dont but unless its your job and you know whats what, you should probably leave the 100 year old explosive artillery shell alone. You see the boom boom in those things is probably one of the early nitrated compounds or maybe an oxidizer and fuel combo. Regardless, given its century of exposure to water, chemicals in the soil, and the annual freeze thaw cycle, the chances that the high explosive inside has become fairly unstable, probably a little less potent than it was bit still capable of reducing you to a fine mist. People get killed by these things all the time and with france employing maybe 6 people for cleanup of just tue WW1 explosives they estimate that they're enough shells, grenades etc... out there that itll take about 200 years to find them all. Add in all the stuff from WW2 and thats a lot of kaboom just jaying around. Maybe wanna rethink the hobby or at least make sure your friends and family have quija boards so you can talk to them if something goes wrong
don't worry, the shells and ammunition that I filmed in the videos are already on the surface of the ground, and I simply handle them carefully to film them, and after that I leave them there. I realize these are munitions designed to kill, but the tractors have already brought them to the surface before I find them.
@@histoirekeo I know that members of my family died on the Somme and elsewhere, I know that I have seen my share of active service and have more in common with the men killed on these battlefields than you ever will have, and I also know that something like one in every four shells produced in the UK up till late 1916 were faulty and never exploded but are still live, which is why so many are killed by unexploded ordinance on these battlefields every year and that bomb disposal teams are still dealing with all the unexploded ordinance over a hundred years later but there is so much off it, estimates are that at the current rate, there will still be unexploded ordinance there well into the next century and I also know that I have visited most of these battlefields with the Royal British Legion and other battlefield tour groups, and we all had more respect for the men that died on these battlefields than to touch or take anything from them.
@@haroldbeck4351the fields have been agricultural land before and after the great war. As soon as the war ended, the farmers started filling in trenches and growing crops or grassland for livestock. They also collected soldier’s equipment etc and put them in barns or passed them on to others. Relic hunting on battlefields has been around for thousands of years.
Soldiers that were kilked & never found, blown into pieces. Must be dangerous every Autumn over in northern France for them farmers. Walking within a field of ghosts daily must be scary.
What particular place are you in like what is the place name of where all the artillery shells are dropped because I want to know the place name so that I could metal detect with my buddy so can you give me the location and where all the artillery shells were it will be very very helpful and I will be very thankful and you will get a subscribe😅😅
Wow impressive after all these 100+ years. With all those buttons there must be bodies under there. Thanks for the clip.
the skeletons have probablt already rotted away
@@Engie_Boi врятли останки древних людей находят тут должны были сохраниться или их убрали после войны
The soft tissue decays and the bones are chewed by rodents for the calcium. Teeth last the longest. The bodies nurished the soil.
@@Engie_Boi no they are still there
@@hendanachi.official english
As you may already know, it's always best to hit the shell with a hammer at the base so as to see if it is "live" or not, if it emitts a dull sound, then you're ok.
funny
😹😹😹
🤭🙏😄
As opposed to a loud sound 🤯
😂🤣😉
Quand on voit,encore aujourd'hui,ce que le sol nous rend...
J'ai une pensée pour nos anciens,morts au front,dans la boue,sous cet orage métallique...
Que leurs âmes soient en paix...
A jamais...
God bless my two grandfathers that made it home, and god bless those that did not.
my great grandfather and 629 men (18 officers ) were moved out a bit to left of the battle of Somme to secure a patch of land out of the 629 2 men died them 2 men were my grandfather and his best friend
@@lenscott100 ok cool thanks for letting us know person ill never meet or remember
Very poignant finding the buttons. But then we know the sheer carnage that took place during WWI. My great uncle died at High Wood. Yet you look at the landscape around it now. So peaceful and verdant.
Have also done the Iron harvest walk where my great great uncle died in ww1, the earth gives back her secrets over time
Don’t kick an unexploded shell mate, their fuses are still live 😱
Lol 😆 I was just thinking the same thing! I seen him leave the first one and said to myself "very wise move" then jumps to him taking a penalty kick with 100 year old he shell 😱
I don’t think I’d kick it either but those shells have been rolled around by farm machinery for 100 years and haven’t exploded yet.
@@timadams7467 I was watching a documentary called the great war in numbers...according to this documentary at least a dozen EOD technicians are killed each year from the iron harvest that they collect from farmers and dispose of.
@@richardmessenger9474 that’s sad. You would think the farmers tillage equipment would explode them. The Verdun battlefield is still considered a red zone due to the millions of unexploded shells there. I read that because the ground was so muddy and churned up by the shelling that many of them just “plopped” in the mud and were still “live”😳
@@timadams7467 shit fuses
Its beyond reckoning the suffering that happened there . No matter what side they were fighting for the majority were peaceable young men with no malice pressed to fighting for the glory of others .
you must be Chinese or Indian
"The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet". Corporal Schicklgruber started round 2 twenty years later.
@@keithscott1255 if they aren't at your throat now then they are planning how too be soon .
I can't imagine how incredible it must be to find such relics. Makes history come alive and confirms directly to the senses that WWI happened and isn't just a "true story" told through the pages of a book.
The unbelievable sheer amount of men and material sent to this battlefield guarantees these finds will continue for many many years to come.
Seen a RUclips special that said France thinks it will be recovering unexplored bombs for 700 years …..
I would love to walk that field & find all the stuff about there. Just think of the horror stories that come with that stuff. God bless all who fought there & all the ones who didn’t make it back.
Battlefield scavengers are neither wanted nor welcome on the battlefields where so many brave men died and every now and then, these scavengers come a cropper from unexploded ordinance.
Kicking a live shell, even just a little bit, isn't a wise thing to do. Even worse, at 6:42, live grenades are being picked up...super stupid!!
Oh I say super stupid what what
Darwin award nomination
Vaak ben je te bang💥
That stuff is 100+ years old. Incredibly unlikely to go off. Farmers plough it up all the time and nothing happens.
@@kevfit4333 ehh then again tho just because it's 100 years old doesn't mean it won't go off if the powder is still preserved it's highly likely it will explode look up videos of ww1 Shells getting exploded by bomb squads
The rusty steel at 4:42 is a barb wire support post fragment
Yes, in front of the german trenches
Very interesting. One of these days I plan on going to France and viewing this area.
Just let it be - it's a war grave
Exactly.
Man youre so lucky i want to go relic hunting out there. The gun barrel and artillery rounds were especially cool
Thank you for posting this
Really awesome the staff in this historic Battlefield..impressive
You find an intact shell, walk away, a long way.
in some places from WW1 battles hundreds shells, grenades and bombs are discovered each year...in some places (now they are woods) the ground is so dense stuffed with ammunition that even agriculture is forbiden...
That was the war that changed history around the entire world. The fact that remnants are still being found over 100 after the battles is frightening and sad. So many young men fighting a deadly battle with so many people lost. My grandfather (who was born in Germany but moved to the U.S. as a teen) fought against members of his own family in that war. He rarely spoke about it, but he once told me that war never solves anything. He passed away in the 1980's at the age of 92, and he was honoured by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, as he joined both forms of the military in that war. He fought in the Army on the border of France and Germany, then he was shipped home and he enlisted in the Navy to help sink submarines.
Maybe all those buttons would make you realize those most likely came from soldier's remains that are still in the ground.
These battlefield scavengers don't care about that, and they also remove items that might at the least identify the regiment that the soldiers belonged to and whose regimental diaries and records could then narrow down whom the men might be.
Could be right but what are the chances that it was a soldier that blew up in a millions pieces when artillery rained down.
Most likely?! I'd say without any shadow of doubt the buttons, belt clips and rounds of unused munitions came from the dismembered bodies of the fallen.... look hard enough and I've no doubt there will be bone fragments in there too.
Astonishing how much of this stuff litters the fields in France & Belgium...can't get my head around it...
Nice finds !! Greets from Poland
It's like ploughing a graveyard unfortunately,the terror that was beheld on those fields is beyond comprehension.. brave men commanded on the most part by idiots sitting safely a long way behind the lines
A bit of a misconception..
@@ja37d-34 how would you reckon that.. not many high commanders led the way over churned up fields criss crossed with barbed wire into an onslaught of machine gun fire... again and again and again with no results.. clever guys those in high command..
@@kevos65 There is a common misconception that all higher commanders were insensitive to casulties. Which is certainly not the case. There is a lot more about this, the issue is way more complicated than stupid generals sitting miles behind the front.
That is a very easy and stereotypical way of explaining it.
Read some more and you will find out more.
@@ja37d-34 I have and do, from all the battlefields from France Belgium Gallipoli etc... madness and stupidity..I don't doubt someone had a brain somewhere but sadly history shows there wasn't a whole lot on show with decisions, tactics research and general proper planning eg wrong shells for the bombardment of enemy lines to destroy barbed wire,no planning there.. the thinking behind attacking fixed positions whilst laden with heavy equipment over muddy fields..the use of cavelery in some early battles when knowledge of the destruction of machine guns was previously evident...I could go on and on.. there were some field commanders who showed initiative like when following a creeping barrage instead of waiting for it to stop but overall disastrous decisions and tactics cost ten's of thousands of lives unnecessarily..the facts and figures are recorded
@@kevos65 Funnily you mention Gallipoli.. How about the avacuation?
There was not that many options to attacking fixed psoitions. Not too many flanks on the western front..
The mistake with heavy equipment was made during D-Day too as well, look at the US assault troops.. Especially on Omaha..
Usually it is a lack of information or maybe the inability to understand it. Very rarely is it pure stupidity or evilness, spite.
There is often an easy explaination and lack of info is a common one. Most people do what they think is right.
That’s all German bullets and buttons you’re finding. And British shell parts and shot from 18 pounder. So must be German front line. I found same German line covered in British fire going towards it all British ammo must of been an attack ,and that was 30 years ago and your still finding it’s just crazy
British .303 cartridge at 12:35
The ordnance expended caused the first shell shock cases.
Très belle vidéo il y a vraiment ne ambiance de folie 😱
Yes indeed God bless those brave troops 🙏 who fought in the great world War.
great condition for 100 years
5:10 you found a gun and you throw it on the ground like trash 😐
Going to the somme and ieper in my holiday. Don't think we need to bring our metal detectors, and i am aware your not allowed to detect in those places. But walking the fields is not illegal.
That's exactly what I did. Only walking, without metal detector :-)
@@histoirekeo après il suffit seulement de demander a l’exploitant si tu peux utilisé le détecteur sur son terrain, mais bon la y’en a clairement pas besoins il suffit de se baissé
That mud made it even more of a nightmare, if that's possible.
Definitely found a few things that would indicate a body being near by like pieces of gas masks, the belt with munitions and the bone.
no, the bodies are in so much pieces scattered around the field due to farming equipment over the 100 years and artillery fire in ww1
@@literallyowl4467 Unless of a direct impact, most of your body should be in one big chunk. The mud and the rain and the extra shell would bury the remains. There would be a chance of a second impact. If i remember well, so many shells were fired that the whole ground was like shelled at least twice per square meter. Gas masks and buttons are most likely found on on the torso so at minimum there is a torso near by.
Every little bit found may have a drama of a magnitude we thankfully will or cannot understand
I wonder how many farmers have been blown sky high while plowing the fields on their tractors.
Apparently about 100 farmers a year are killed or injured.
@@alanpriest8016 ☆ No Risk, No Fun ☆
@@uweyaa Battlefield scavengers are the lowest of the low.
That depends, if it’s for profit or not etc, I have wanted since a child to visit and stand in the fields where my uncle was killed between Ovillers and Pozieres , he was with the 1/6th Glos regiment, died 23/7/16 . And if I can go there and find some bits which I can display with his medals for the family, I bloody well will, lowest of the low, scum or not
I read an article somewhere that states that, most of the little white blebs you see in clips of the soil there are actually bone fragments.
Didn’t know that it makes sense there were so many explosions that ripped the Soldiers in bits thanks for the information
It's a type of natural chalk that's found in the soil in that are of France
rubbish - don’t believe everything you read.
@@terryberry806 im more likely to trust a published article written by scientists, than believe what you say.
That’s just brutal and terrifying
"La primera guerra mundial fué una carnicería y una auténtica crueldad. Una guerra de desgaste en que se arrojaban los cuerpos de los soldados sobre los cañones. Una guerra sin sentido, una derrota aplastante para la humanidad. En definitiva, una guerra que no debió liberarse jamás"
Pick up old ordinance there is a chance that you will ended up in pieces. The chemicals in those rounds due to the environment exposure are not estable and they may react
Interesting. I walked these muddy fields with colleagues in 2016 and the amount of WW1 debris is staggering. That mud really is sticky and glutinous, fibrous almost, you can see in the footage.
Some people say that the white bits in the ground are bones of fully exploded soldiers
Scary
Oxidized aluminum,You are certainly not a metal detectorist
Or chalk, areas of the Somme have chalk layers explosions will have churned it all up
Pity you didn't mark the shell with some coloured tape. It would probably save a farmers life.
Salut joli les trouvaille bravo et abiento
I thought that finding and taking away relics from the Somme and other WW1 battlefields was forbidden?
With a metal detector, yes that's forbidden. But just walking is not forbidden yet :-P
Why is that forbidden?
@@Dignity_first if i am not wrong you have dick heads who pilfer what they can find with metal detector. Even going unto WW1 archeological sites at night taking away things and disturbing bodies the archeologist were working on. I think this video shows someone walking trough a field during "the iron harvest" where the agricultural plows turn the earth, bringing to the surface a lot of finds and ordinance. During that period there are a few tons of shells dug up as well left on collection spots by the road for the french démineurs to comme and collect. Certain Battlefield are still blocked off due to the toxic levels of elements in the ground and the french government has a backlog of a few hundred years worth of defusing of chemical shells to go through. It is said that it would take at least 900 years for the area affected to be demined and safe.
@@peter4210 if you want to be correct - check your own dickhead in the mirror first and then read again my question. I asked w/o meaning that I’m waiting somewhere with a metal detector on my shoulder. And the guy said literally about “finding and taking away relics”, not exactly “metal detecting”: semantically it means, that you can find anything while just walking by. Also, my point, that potentially you can find any object, which was owned by a soldier, who disappeared in a trench mud, to discover the history and to bring some peace to one family somewhere on the other end of the planet. I know what I’m talking about. This is the point, until the connection between times and generations haven’t disappeared completely. Until all those information haven’t erased by time.
@@Dignity_first i was not calling you a dick head. Just the people who went and plunderer archeological digs with metal detectors. They take away vital things that could help find the name to the body
On vois les habitués, repérer les grenades mills a œil ainsi que les "œufs" allemands il faut être aguerris mais juste après le labour surtout si il a plu c'est une bonne balade a faire , sans rien d'autre qu'un bon sac. bonne continuation et continués a être prudent .
Just try to imagine slogging through that sticky mud, and fighting a war at the Somme, or Verdun!!!!! There was nothing but carnage wrought on the troops on that battlefield, and it should be left alone as a memorial--- Not to mention-- all the unexploded ordinance just laying around in the mud------
I was unsure, so I checked with French and Belgian authorities this morning, what you have done is illegal. Farmers who turn up munitions as part of their normal activities are allowed to move shells. However, it's illegal in both countries to do what the video maker has done. Numerous prosecutions have taken place. Not only is it illegal, it's highly disrespectful to pick anything up from these battlefields.
Are you legally allowed to remove artifacts from these places?
Seriously made me Jump when you kicked the Shell over...........LOL
je suis de la region et je suis passé encore passé devant 1 obus sur le coté de la route, ca fait 2 mois passé qu'il est là 😅🤫, tu habite ou @histoireKéo ?
If you look carefully to can find Human Bones - it's a graveyard for thousand of Soldiers - Please be RESPECTFUL
The comment about hammers is sadly prophetic metal detectorist came across a metallic object.his companion said don't touch he replied saying if it goes bang you are right he hit it his companion was far enough away to not be hurt being right
It’s like picking things out of graves…. Some things should be left alone
Exactly.
Imagine what a dig in the fields would uncover. It will be throwing up stuff for centuries. Not to mention the thousands of lost soldiers.
I hope you believe this
Some farmers whose land was once fought over attach armour plate under their tractors. Most ploughing MIGHT turn a shell over in a furrow, but better be safer IF one goes BANG!
@@von-Adler I had heard that casualties occasionally still occur. I would be fascinated with an exploration of High Wood, but I believe it is private property. Surely the commonwealth War Graves Commission have been there to collect soldier’s remains?
One of them shells going off would give different meaning to the hymn ‘we plough the fields and scatter’ 😮
Some parts in lower sc is like this except it’s Indian arrowheads and hatchets. Few miles down the road on land that people haven’t walked in in decades you can walk over fields littered with civil war buckles, mini balls, not this much but more than you’d think. We’re at a point now where all of the smaller things are really on the edge of disappearing forever. I wish I could have walked this land 5-10 years after ww1 wen the majority of people really didn’t care.
Is it me, or is that the remnants of a jaw bone behind the grenades that he's just put down @ 6:50? Centre of frame behind the second grenade. Most people probably looking at the grenade and not what's behind it.
I can't handle the music.
That is awesome
There is nothing "awesome" about battlefield scavengers, the awesome people are those soldiers that died on these battlefields, not the battlefield scavengers.
Once came across a shell on Belgian coast and picked it up. My father got mad and told me not to touch it.
Good place to locate buried gas shells. Just tap gently with a hammer to shake the rust off. Take a deep breath!
Perhaps the items should be left where they fell as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives defending Europe. My relation died at Ypres in 1915.
@tophatanimation8748 Returning items to family and regiment I guess is OK but not selling it. There are so many medals for sale online it sickens me to see it.
Awesome
I wonder what they'll do with their findings. I believe while still uninhabitable, mote people should be helping to clean this place of scrap metals and such. There is still ordinance there though, so it would complicate things a little.
Why clean this area ? I say leave it as a permanent reminder of how foolish war is
This is like "Curse Of Oak Island:" Except without the buttons and coins Gary bought off of eBay that were planted in the area he has already searched six times.
😂
I hope you leve those things there.
So satisfying
Impressive video
Thanks a lot 😉
The buttons are disturbing artifacts as they are what's left of the uniforms that held the dismembered corpses........... and there are a lot of buttons.
Re . Wahou c'est vraiment impressionnant . Et tout ça a vu...
Ca donne envie même si je suis pas trop militaria.
A+
Were any mustard or Phosgene gas shells found ?
If they were .. they are still deadly and should be reported
Plus chlorean gass as well
@@bobbybates2614
Yes Chorine gas shells
These shells are taken to Portland Down in the UK were they are stored and disposed … An interesting documentary on BBC I player about how dangerous that stuff is even after 100 years … must be treated with respect…
I wonder if it's he or gas
And the whiny sucks of today crying about the horror of having to wear a mask against covid. Real hardship. Try going through what these men went through. At the battle of the Somme 300,000 died with over a million casualties.
Why was all that acreage dug up ? Are they farming there?? Seems like there's enough relics in the earth to be a serious problem for a plow and tractor.
Bits and pieces of people blown up.
How do you get permission to detect these areas?? I'm in U.K
I don't use my metal detector, all my finds in surface ^_^
@@histoirekeo where can I go without detecter please??
You can ask the land owner.
All those white flecks are the bones of the fallen. Lest we forget. 😔
Is this legal
Mi infancia trascurrió en aquel lugar, peronne. Había personas que se ganaba la vida rebuscado chatarra. Yo vivía en Biache.
de hecho, lo viste con tus propios ojos, los pisos están llenos de objetos metálicos de la guerra.
Do we need that hellish music along side everything?
They shall not grow old ❤️
"They shall not grow old". Oh lucky them! Is that what we are supposed to think? I've always thought that line is the most twisted consolation. Probably dreamt up, like the fine memorials, by the Church and the ruling class to try to dampen down the growing discontent amongst ordinary people in the immediate post-war period when revolution was in the air. The war revealed to ordinary people that their 'betters' were in fact nothing of the sort and capable of organising nothing more than "legalised mass murder", as Harry Patch put it.
Its the buttons that tell you it was just hell
So maybe you.know this or maybe you dont but unless its your job and you know whats what, you should probably leave the 100 year old explosive artillery shell alone. You see the boom boom in those things is probably one of the early nitrated compounds or maybe an oxidizer and fuel combo. Regardless, given its century of exposure to water, chemicals in the soil, and the annual freeze thaw cycle, the chances that the high explosive inside has become fairly unstable, probably a little less potent than it was bit still capable of reducing you to a fine mist. People get killed by these things all the time and with france employing maybe 6 people for cleanup of just tue WW1 explosives they estimate that they're enough shells, grenades etc... out there that itll take about 200 years to find them all. Add in all the stuff from WW2 and thats a lot of kaboom just jaying around. Maybe wanna rethink the hobby or at least make sure your friends and family have quija boards so you can talk to them if something goes wrong
don't worry, the shells and ammunition that I filmed in the videos are already on the surface of the ground, and I simply handle them carefully to film them, and after that I leave them there. I realize these are munitions designed to kill, but the tractors have already brought them to the surface before I find them.
Oh look I've found a live shell, I know let's stand it up then kick it over .
What did you know about the soldiers during the great War, they threw the shells before putting them in the cannons!
@@histoirekeo I know that members of my family died on the Somme and elsewhere, I know that I have seen my share of active service and have more in common with the men killed on these battlefields than you ever will have, and I also know that something like one in every four shells produced in the UK up till late 1916 were faulty and never exploded but are still live, which is why so many are killed by unexploded ordinance on these battlefields every year and that bomb disposal teams are still dealing with all the unexploded ordinance over a hundred years later but there is so much off it, estimates are that at the current rate, there will still be unexploded ordinance there well into the next century and I also know that I have visited most of these battlefields with the Royal British Legion and other battlefield tour groups, and we all had more respect for the men that died on these battlefields than to touch or take anything from them.
Thanks for sharing this - music was also beautiful
@@gingerpeachy3044 The music was atrocious and disrespectful. I would slap him if I was near....
lest we forget,, R.I.P.,
Seeing the drive band on a shell and pick it up you must have a death wish 🙄
Agree
Hey, certainly nothing ghoulish here. Noooooo, not at all. Just picking through the trash at a the sight of thousands of killings.
Fitting music
Nice driving band thumbnail
Please show a little respect when you find a bone,it may well be human.
Quella terra e piena di ossa denti 😮
Its a grave, leave them be with their mates.
No, it's cultivated fields ...
jolie video la même pour nous dans le 57
Merci bien 😉
I believe around 09:55 you came across someone’s remains
Paix à leurs âme
Pai pour Toute le monde! Nous avans Allied en premiere guvernele mondiale, Nous sommes Allied en O.T.A.N. aujourdhui! Salut de la ROUMANIE!
The buttons are so sad! Probably belonged to a dead or wounded soldier. Rest in peace!
Relic hunting in a war cemetery. Gross.
war cemetery??
@@Bashki-tech Shore 'nuff. If you be diggin' up bits o' skull.
@@stubeast4031 its a battlefield not a cemetery
@@Bashki-tech How does that make it better? Where is your compassion?
@@haroldbeck4351the fields have been agricultural land before and after the great war. As soon as the war ended, the farmers started filling in trenches and growing crops or grassland for livestock. They also collected soldier’s equipment etc and put them in barns or passed them on to others. Relic hunting on battlefields has been around for thousands of years.
Soldiers that were kilked & never found, blown into pieces. Must be dangerous every Autumn over in northern France for them farmers. Walking within a field of ghosts daily must be scary.
What particular place are you in like what is the place name of where all the artillery shells are dropped because I want to know the place name so that I could metal detect with my buddy so can you give me the location and where all the artillery shells were it will be very very helpful and I will be very thankful and you will get a subscribe😅😅
I think if I found an intact 150mm shell I would leave it alone.
Ww2 metal detecting has more respect for the fallen soldiers then this guy
Please god let me live to walk these grounds.