Artillery Trench Find

alanint · 06-12-2016, 02:23 PM

Found at the bottom of recently excavated trenches in France. Considering the exceptional condition of most of the rig, I would really like to see what the pistol looks like!

kurusu · 06-12-2016, 05:39 PM

Do you think there's still a pistol in that holster?

Eugen · 06-12-2016, 05:51 PM

I'd sure like to learn the story of how it got buried and hidden for so long. How'd that happen? What happened to the owner? The truth is probably more exciting than our imaginations.

Ron Wood · 06-12-2016, 07:37 PM

That holster and a bunch of other artifacts and human remains were uncovered in a roofed trench system that had collapsed, trapping the soldiers and their equipment.

hayhugh · 06-12-2016, 09:10 PM

And where we can all read the story.................

Edward Tinker · 06-12-2016, 10:14 PM

I saw this recently, a Google search shows this from four years ago
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ied-shell.html

LU1900 · 06-13-2016, 12:10 AM

Yes know as the KILIANSTOLLEN (ask on google)
Here some link :
http://www.lieux-insolites.fr/cicatr...ian/kilian.htm
http://www.kilianstollen1918.com/

GerColctor · 06-16-2016, 06:33 PM

Ed Tinker

Thank you for posting that very interesting and informative link.

Joe

gunbugs · 06-17-2016, 12:03 AM

A good article on this in Archeology magazine about a year ago.

06-12-2016, 05:51 PM	#3
Eugen User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Newburgh,IN Posts: 797 Thanks: 403 Thanked 640 Times in 339 Posts	I'd sure like to learn the story of how it got buried and hidden for so long. How'd that happen? What happened to the owner? The truth is probably more exciting than our imaginations. __________________ “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

06-12-2016, 07:37 PM	#4
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,051 Thanks: 1,120 Thanked 5,287 Times in 1,728 Posts	That holster and a bunch of other artifacts and human remains were uncovered in a roofed trench system that had collapsed, trapping the soldiers and their equipment. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

06-13-2016, 12:10 AM	#7
LU1900 User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: FRANCE Posts: 914 Thanks: 49 Thanked 475 Times in 200 Posts	Yes know as the KILIANSTOLLEN (ask on google) Here some link : http://www.lieux-insolites.fr/cicatr...ian/kilian.htm http://www.kilianstollen1918.com/ __________________ Best regards from France...Patrice https://www.fichier-pdf.fr/2016/03/1...nd-snail-drum/

06-16-2016, 06:33 PM	#8
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 318 Thanks: 3 Thanked 53 Times in 33 Posts	Ed Tinker Thank you for posting that very interesting and informative link. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.

06-12-2016, 05:39 PM	#2
kurusu User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,225 Thanks: 2,679 Thanked 930 Times in 509 Posts	Do you think there's still a pistol in that holster?

06-12-2016, 09:10 PM	#5
hayhugh User Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Florida/Penna Posts: 898 Thanks: 893 Thanked 514 Times in 276 Posts	And where we can all read the story.................

06-12-2016, 10:14 PM	#6
Edward Tinker Super Moderator Eternal Lifer LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: North of Spokane, WA Posts: 15,974 Thanks: 2,072 Thanked 4,608 Times in 2,123 Posts	I saw this recently, a Google search shows this from four years ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ied-shell.html

06-17-2016, 12:03 AM	#9
gunbugs Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska. Home of the best moose. Posts: 681 Thanks: 375 Thanked 1,227 Times in 414 Posts	A good article on this in Archeology magazine about a year ago.