Wow impressive after all these 100+ years. With all those buttons there must be bodies under there. Thanks for the clip.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Don’t kick an unexploded shell mate, their fuses are still live 😱

God bless my two grandfathers that made it home, and god bless those that did not.

Have also done the Iron harvest walk where my great great uncle died in ww1, the earth gives back her secrets over time

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 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.

Just let it be - it's a war grave

Great finds. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

Very interesting. One of these days I plan on going to France and viewing this area.

Très belle vidéo il y a vraiment ne ambiance de folie 😱

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

Nice finds !! Greets from Poland

Astonishing how much of this stuff litters the fields in France & Belgium...can't get my head around it...

Yes indeed God bless those brave troops 🙏 who fought in the great world War.

Salut joli les trouvaille bravo et abiento

That mud made it even more of a nightmare, if that's possible.

That is awesome

Seriously made me Jump when you kicked the Shell over...........LOL

The rusty steel at 4:42 is a barb wire support post fragment

You find an intact shell, walk away, a long way.

So satisfying

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

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

Impressive video

Awesome

Re . Wahou c'est vraiment impressionnant . Et tout ça a vu... Ca donne envie même si je suis pas trop militaria. A+

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.

Maybe all those buttons would make you realize those most likely came from soldier's remains that are still in the ground.

Every little bit found may have a drama of a magnitude we thankfully will or cannot understand

One of them shells going off would give different meaning to the hymn ‘we plough the fields and scatter’ 😮

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!!

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.

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 .

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

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.

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 hope you leve those things there.

"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"

Pity you didn't mark the shell with some coloured tape. It would probably save a farmers life.

I wonder how many farmers have been blown sky high while plowing the fields on their tractors.

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.

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.

Once came across a shell on Belgian coast and picked it up. My father got mad and told me not to touch it.

It’s like picking things out of graves…. Some things should be left alone

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.

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

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.

Fitting music

great condition for 100 years 5:10 you found a gun and you throw it on the ground like trash 😐

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.

Thanks for sharing this - music was also beautiful

Its the buttons that tell you it was just hell

Nice driving band thumbnail

Some people say that the white bits in the ground are bones of fully exploded soldiers Scary

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.

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.

I can't handle the music.

Pretty dangerous

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.

Good place to locate buried gas shells. Just tap gently with a hammer to shake the rust off. Take a deep breath!

Bits and pieces of people blown up.

Do we need that hellish music along side everything?

lest we forget,, R.I.P.,

Are you legally allowed to remove artifacts from these places?

I thought that finding and taking away relics from the Somme and other WW1 battlefields was forbidden?

Were any mustard or Phosgene gas shells found ? If they were .. they are still deadly and should be reported

They shall not grow old ❤️

All those white flecks are the bones of the fallen. Lest we forget. 😔

I wonder if it's he or gas

Here for the music

Mi infancia trascurrió en aquel lugar, peronne. Había personas que se ganaba la vida rebuscado chatarra. Yo vivía en Biache.

Hey, certainly nothing ghoulish here. Noooooo, not at all. Just picking through the trash at a the sight of thousands of killings.

jolie video la même pour nous dans le 57

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.

Es mas el barro que se ve, que otra cosa.

Belle vidéo mais NE TOUCHEZ PAS AUX OBUS c'est hyper dangereux !!!

Paix à leurs âme

Seeing the drive band on a shell and pick it up you must have a death wish 🙄

Picric acid... in the shell...

They lost a lot of buttons.

Lots of these battlefield scavengers, because that is what they are, die every year from live, unexploded ordinance on the First World War battlefields, a little poetic justice.perhaps.?

Please god let me live to walk these grounds.

Please show a little respect when you find a bone,it may well be human.

Unbelievable the fields there are soaked in blood, and for what.

The music is doing my head in behave

Mostly German artefacts from what I can see - ammo, a rifle and remains of webbing.

The buttons are so sad! Probably belonged to a dead or wounded soldier. Rest in peace!

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.

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

I think if I found an intact 150mm shell I would leave it alone.

che terreno ... un'inferno

This music killed me, never mind the unexploded mine.

How do you get permission to detect these areas?? I'm in U.K

Oh look I've found a live shell, I know let's stand it up then kick it over .