I did some research and found that the Dragon's Teeth close to my apartment is actually an inner part of the Siegfried Line or the West Wall line of defense during WWII in Germany.  It was formed during WWI then improved during WWII.  I could not find this section of the wall relating to the town before I set out for the hunt, it is not mentioned anywhere but there is a mark and a wall behind the West wall.  I arrived at the site and started detecting, very slow, not many targets and very little trash, the first hour I had only found a few 50. Caliber casings and a couple pieces of trash.  My batteries were about to die so I started detecting back to the car when I noticed a person walking his dog in the distance coming towards me.  Unlike most people, I thought this was great as I could ask what the heck this wall of cement teeth sticking out of the ground was, I knew what it was but why couldn't I reference it?  As luck would have it, I met a very friendly gentleman, 75 years old and he explained the whole history as he knew it.  This inner part of the West Wall was built in 1939 with two bunkers, and he pointed out the houses where the bunkers are.  Those houses must have some awesome basements/cellars, LOL!  He explained he was 12 years old at the end of WWII when the Americans came through here.  There was not much fighting here and the bunkers were not really used at all, it was just a line of defense that the Americans easily went through.  He told me a great surprise to the Germans was the Americans had incorporated hydraulic plows on their tanks and just continued to plow dirt up onto these obstacles until they could cross over it, a small speed bump in a WWII environment in 1944-45.  Had a nice 15 minute conversation with the old guy and we did not even exchange names, he gave me a pat on my shoulder and we said goodbye.  I did thank him for his conversation.  Here is the plowed field I detected, looks a little rough but was easy, you can see the wall, just over 2' high, the Dragon's Teeth are very hard to make out in the tree line.

This is a picture in the tree line, the big Teeth are over 3' high.  The gentleman I talked to thinks the obstacle line is over 3000 meters, seems right.

This is a picture in the tree line, the big Teeth are over 3' high.  The gentleman I talked to thinks the obstacle line is over 3000 meters, seems right.

I'm not sure what this is, shows a woman's bust facing left with a bouquet of flowers.  Almost looks like a bear lower left with its head down digging.  The lines near the bear almost look like a screw cap type thing but my overall impression makes me think it was a large locket of sort.  It is the size of a Silver American Dollar.  Appears to have some part broken off.

Reverse of the locket thing.

Obverse of a very nice 50 Reichspfennig coin from 1928, is not aluminum, maybe nickel.

Reverse of the 1928.

And my favorite find of the day, a Nazi ship badge.  Says "SEEFAHRT IST NOT" or Seafaring is important.  There is more wording around the lower legend of the badge but I can not make it out, I will try to clean it when I get time.

Reverse of the badge, the pin made of steel is long rusted away.  Was another beautiful day and great hunt in Germany.  HH, Mike

Hey Mike

Hier mal das Segelschiff.

http://www.sucherforum.de/index.php/topic,12484.0.html

Die 50 Pfennig aus 1928 sind aus Nickel.


Sondenmichel

Vielen dank Michel!  MFG, Mike

Hallo Mike 

Story und Bilder sind wie immer top von Dir, 3x Daumen hoch 

GF Schliemann