Tekijä: Jan Fast

Next week (with the weather permitting) we will attempt the first scientific battlefield archaeology documentation dives to the German Junkers JU 88-A5 bomber shot down over Hanko in early July …

The excavation nears it´s end and today we filed up excavation area I on the hillock of death. The second excavation area here with remains of wooden structures was documented …

Today we finally reached the find layer of the ”Hamsterbo” shelter and lot´s of different finds from the last days and hours of the shelter started to emerge! Now we …

Hanko in WW2. The 2020 battlefield archaeology excavation. Day 6/10. Today we concentrated on the burnt down ”Hamsterbo” shelter in order to find out just how deep down the remains …

During the last day of the first leg of excavations we mainly concentrated on documentation. But we also encountered a couple more interesting finds. The first find testifies to the …

Day four of the battlefield archaeology dig produced the first uniform related finds. Military insignia burnt and twisted by the extreme heat of the fire that turned the shelter to …

Today we continued the excavations of the burnt down ”Hamsterbo” shelter. The finds confirm the story written down by ”SS Hauptsturmführer” Åke Kretz in 1942. We found exploded rifle and …

Updated: Jul 19, 2020 Today we started excavating ”Hamsterbo” the frontline ”home” of four Swedish volunteers on the Hanko front. This is what I think a frontline WW2 closed find …

”Hamsterbo” was a small timber built shelter on the Finnish side of the frontline, only some 100 meters from the enemy. The cramped space of only 4 square meters was …

Updated: Jul 14, 2020 Today we kicked off the battlefield archaeology excavations in Hanko. As usual the first day was much about making preparations and getting to know the team …