I worked in a factory making crisps when there was a potato shortage we started getting them from Belgium and went through a phase of getting hand grenades amongst the potatoes.

Going to Ypres changed mine and my wife's life forever. Wars are for nothing...as soon as people realise that the better! Elites playing games with us all.

The amount of surface finds is amazing. There will be thousands still getting pushed to the surface for years to come. Excellent finds

IT IS sad and cruel, what people did and still do. Peace to every poor man who died in this fields of pain for nothing.

the small round donut shaped items are the German potato masher hand grenade pull string grab that is in the handle and gets pulled to start the fuse.

I did a bike trip around the Ypres battlefield in Belgium in the late 1990s. At one point I stopped to drink some water. I looked down and there by the side of the road were three large rusty artillery shells very close to my right foot. They must have been dug up from the nearby farmer's field and placed here for the army to come pick them up and dispose of them. I had been warned by the bike rental guy to not touch anything like that. Words to the wise indeed. I quickly put my bottle of water away and pedaled the hell out of there.

La mémoire de la terre 😢❤💪 let’s we Forget, mon arrière grand père repose en paix quelque part la bas !

It would be interesting to know where the search was done. The Somme is an extensive area. The CWGC had a document with the map co-ordinates of where my great uncle Arthur's remains were found post WW1. They were recorded by the Casualty Clearance Unit that found him, and I'm told they are accurate to 50 feet. That put him in front of the wire of the Regina Trench about 500 yards SW of the Regina Trench Canadian Cemetery.

I think the Belgian farmers call it the Iron Harvest as they till the soil for spring planting. Tons are unearthed every year. Since 1916. Imagine what Ukraine will have to deal with. UXO's. Cluster mines.

How in hell my grandfather survived these killing field's is a miracle. Passed long ago when i was a kid. RIP grandpa, greatly missed.

Amazing to see what still lies around!

Thanks for all the battlefield walks you do. Simply amazing!

at 6:46 there is enough bone there to warrant reporting to the CWGC - I expect there is more underneath....................

I'd feel like I was walking over a mass grave.

One must read about The Somme region of the Western Front to appreciate the sporadic carnage that occurred there, especially the big push of 1916, a battle of attrition initiated by French and British forces, lasted for several weeks with little gain and great loss of life.

Literally the one place on earth i wouldnt disturb anything because it is a testament to our nature as long as it remains there to be seen.

As always interesting and fun to watch.

I feel anxiety just watching him pick up 100+ year old grenades...

I was near Verdun last summer and it’s quite shocking to walk the fields and just see this stuff lying around as if it all happened only a few years ago. We found WW2 bullets in a puddle in a woodland as well. The tangibility factor was intense.

As a 12 year old, I metal detected the banks of the Thames at Woolwich. The old arsenal site. We turned off the detector because their was just thousands of .303 live rounds sticking in the mud. I took home a bucketful...plus some other warheads which we never identified.

My Great Grandfather Robinson was excluded from the British army in WW1 for a heart murmur. He opted instead after the war to come to America. I exist because of this decision. He didn't live as long as normal. But he surely outlived his pals from Swansea who died in Flanders Field. Bless you Great-Grandfather! And bless those who suffered.

The absolute Hell that those poor souls were forever ground into. Digging through and planting food crops in the decaying remains of those poor men.

I’d like to have the pieces identified, when my father worked on a dig at the Custer National Battlefield, there were many archaeologists who knew every piece of equipment that was carried by the troops and could identify them almost immediately.

That is easily the last place I could think of to go for a stroll!

I'm 63 growing in hounslow in the 60s one of my main memories is of older men with missing limbs bless them 🙏 ♥️

I do not who said it, but essentially the quote was . . “War is the manifestation of Politicians who have failed the people they were supposed to represent”

Awsome finds 💪

those live rounds, the uniform fragments and the morphine ampule in that small area is a strong indicator that there are a soldiers remains there as well

I remember 30yrs ago on a school trip to Ypres getting back on the bus and the lad next to me getting a mills bomb outbid his pocket to show me. Everything went very calm on the bus as the pillock had to go and put it down gently at the side of the road!

I remember Professor Richard Holmes talking about visiting the Somme during his War Walks documentaries and saying that on average every year 60 tons of ordnance is recovered from the battlefield and that there is a bomb disposal team that is constantly available to deal with what's found.

Be careful when handling old unstable ordinance. Not long ago, two ten-year boys were killed while doing so. This happed not far from where I Ilive, in the US.

You should have seen what was around on abandoned airfields in Essex, England in the 1960's!

Sehr gut 👍👍👍👍

Some interesting finds

Nice finds! I'm a fellow fieldwalker/metaldetectorist

Cheers bro! Very cool finds.. and well edited video... We also had a great time one month ago in WWI trenches.. we also put 2 videos about it... with very cool and interesting finds... Big support from ew friends and followers from southern Europe

When I was a child growing up in the 50’s, both wars were very real, every street had someone who had fought in either. I remember a junior school teacher who was in the 2nd WW. Over 50 years ago my brother and I traveled through northern France and Belgium, every village had a cemetery with either black headstones or white, as an 18 year old it gave a new perspective of the war.

Those fields must be hell on the agricultural equipment 😮, especially things like those discharged shrapnel shells . Although, I'm thinking a live shell wouldn't be an improvement 😅

Me great uncle had a nose cone of a shell as his paperweight. Poor buggas turned to atoms for what!?!

I’m surprised you didn’t find many shell splinters, I was near hill 62 near sanctuary wood and that’s mostly what I found

Amazing. After all these years... still finding artifacts. One has to worry about those Mills Bombs and shell fuses!

We used to get classes from EOD on occasion. One of them told us a story of someone coming back from a battlefield visit with a UXO, wanted it safed so he could keep it as a souvie. EOD guy said that he managed to loosen the fuze and that as soon as the seal was broken his arm broke out in blisters.

Félicitations très belle vidéo

Sadly, the month I spent in France I WASTED because I listened to my idiot brother in law. I wish I could go back and see the WW1 sites.

You better be careful picking up that UXO. Some of that shit still works.

Almost feel like this is in a regular Ww1 reenactment field

Isnt it dangerous lifting an old grenade?

Salut Loïck. Merci pour le partage de cette sortie cueillette d'histoire. C'est très impressionnant et ça m'a transporté dans le passé. Dommage cependant que ce ne soit quand musique et que l'on ne vous entendent pas parler sur les objets trouvés qui pourraient apporter des explications. Mais ca reste tout de même une chouette vidéo. Merci encore. A+

Les restes humains même un os doivent être déclarés aux autorités tout comme les explosifs... et n'oublions pas que ces terres sont une immense tombe de guerre....

The amount of artillery used during the war was terrifyingly impressive.

I can't imagine what it must be like to be a Farmer ploughing up what in effect are not fields but a vast graveyard year after year...just horrible. Must do your head in...

I’m glad the music changed to jazzz

The debris of death.

It would be nice to see these items once you have cleaned them

Wenn ich den Lehm sehe frag ich mich wieviel Blut damals hinein geflossen ist 😢

You can feel the mysery....

if brass ever becomes valuable again, this place is gonna be a goldmine.

Oh look a grenade, I'll just pick that up and wave it in front of the camera!! Trust me if that goes bang you aren't going to be walking it off.

Great video. Do you need to get permission from the land owner before searching?

Een paar fijne ontstekers voor granaten voor de liefhebber….

This is sacred ground. The least we can do is remember the heroic and fruitless struggles which took place here and try to do better. We owe it to them.

What are these countless white balls/buttons with holes in them? Parts from soldiers uniforms?

No idea if it’d still work or even be together but man I’d give anything for an original whistle and bayonet..

What surprised me was the amount of bullets unified but damaged by shrapnel or bullet holes and the shrapnel

the first years after the war ended must have been so difficult as well as downright dangerous trying to clean up and recover the land back into farming use, there are still fatalities from uxo's

Good Day, how are the Laws in France with searching? I heard they are really hard there. Also possible to one day come with you? Im looking for legal searching ^^ I would also give all my finds to you. Best, Luke

Back in 1971, my friends and I found a bunch og grenades on South Shore Beach, Cape Cod. WW2 era grenades, too rusted to be scary.

Interesting and sad reminder of the horrors of war.

What was the glass ampoule? Looks like iodine, though it's not British because there a lot smaller.

There is a reason that every spring in France and Belgium is called "The Iron Harvest."

You found a Mills bomb. You shouldn’t have to worry about that one - they were disastrously unreliable in the first place😜

What was that glass vial, full of dark liquid (09:10)?

What a tragic event, there is a lord of war the destroyer of nation’s. Everyone knows he being a fallen angel.

Okay, I have to ask: are the grenades potentially still dangerous, and are human remains still found? How is the last handled?

must have been surreal in WW2 ploughing these fields finding UXB from the previous war

All those things are crazy,those bones will they be looked at incase it's human?

Some awsome relics u guys found and what did u do with the bones ? Brought them to local cemetery? Grazy to see how much is on the surface Good luck next search

Isn't that grenade still dangerous?

A lot of 303 British

100 years after and pieces still there 😱

What are you doing with the relicts

What are the cone shaped things you dug up?

Sais tu ce qu'est la fiole qui contient du liquide a 9:10?

Be careful something still could go off

Don't think I'd walk around there as you don't know what's under your feet as in shells, even Gas ones.

Cool video, but it seems unwise to be picking up unexploded ordanance

The remains of a picklehaube helmet, how did you even identify it?

What was the circular metal disk with a hole at 18:30 as I found one at my last outing but don’t know what it is

Lifting up a corroded mills bomb?

you must be mad picking up a hand granade

Other than the bullets and grenades I have no idea what I'm seeing.

What are the porcelain buttons?

Grenade

PLEASE don't pick up the mills bombs again those things have anger issues even back then it did not take much to piss those things off

遺品に合掌してます。

6:42 is that a femur?

Does anyone know what the white beads are?

Sad

Beim in die Hand nehmen von Munition wird mir ganz anders,selbst wenn man sich überlegt wie lange sie dort schon liegt.

Why hasn’t the grass grown back since the war?