I live in Ploiesti, Romania and I am a member of Romanian Military Archeology organisation – a team specialising in the recovery of military relics and artefacts. After several weeks spent at home during the winter period, we were all eagerly waiting for the heavy snow to start to thaw. Finally, a clear window of good weather came and we all set out with our XP Deus machines. 

During the past months, we had had plenty of time to study maps and related documents, which helped to establish the direction of our future searches. We had decided to search an area around the city of Ploiesti – research has shown that a large section of the German armed forces had been positioned here, defending the well-known oil refineries. These same installations were famously bombed in 1943 during a low-level raid by B24 Liberator bombers as part of what was known as Operation Tidal. 

Our aim was to locate and hopefully find artefacts relating to this concentrated German presence and thus confirm what our previous research had indicated. In some of the areas there were multiple headquarters, workshops, baracks, field hospitals and defensive structires, so our hopes were very high. The first site that we searched was an area where there had been a series of barrack blocks. This involved a total of five Deus machines in the field, using both the HF coils, the new X35 and also the older 22. Fortunately for us, some of the barrack foundations were still visible. However, searching here proved problematic, due to the level of iron contamination, deriving from both the former barracks construction phases and their associated refuse dumps.

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How many finds have you ignored, discarded immediately or maybe thrown away later on, having just not considered them to be of any interest? I suspect that sounds familiar to many of us, but as we shall see it’s possible that even nondescript pieces of rubbish can in fact turn out to be something quite amazing and historically significant. I am a member of the Romanian Military Archaeology (RMA) team and currently we have around 15 individuals operating in the recovery of military artefacts of historical importance. All of our team proudly use XP Deus detectors in and around the Bucharest region and have achieved some amazing results with them. Over the past two months, we have been focusing on a specific area that has provided us with many interesting Second World War related finds. These have included an incredible hoard of 180 German Iron Cross medals! Since our team obtained a second HF coil (the 9 inch round one) we regularly deploy them both out in the field and recently we have targeted the areas that have not been particularly well searched in the past.

One such area included a section of land adjacent to a road, which, as can be imagined, was contaminated with modern junk and numerous drinks cans. However, during one search, under all these bottle tops, tin foil and junk we went on to discover something far more interesting – something that really rewarded us for the time and dedication we spent on such a difficult area. The fast recovery speed of the XP Deus,plus the extraordinary sensitivity and discrimination of the HF coils, helped us to locate the boundaries of a small but significant finds hotspot.

Romanian Military Archeology – RMA studiaza zonele de conflict din anii 1916 – 1918. Mai multe institutii cu atributii in domeniul patrimoniului cultural s-au sesizat (Muzeul Judetean “Aurelian Sacerdoreanu” Valcea, Polotia de Patrimoniu, Inspectoratul de Situatii de Urgenta, Directia Judeteana de CUltura, Culte si Patrimoniu National Valcea) si au facut o cercetare a liniei frontului in anul 1916, confirmand existenta materialului osteologic uman si a artefactelor presentate in imagini.

Au fost indentificate 3 compexe arheologice numerotate M1, M2 si M3. La propunerea arheologilor Muzeul Judetean “Aurelian Sacerdoreanu”  Valcea, punctul a fost declarat zona cu potential arheologic, ulterior fiind clasat ca sit arheologic. In 2017, in urma unei noi vizite in teren, a mai fost identificat un complex arheologic, M4.