I showed it to my FiL. He walked on that hill in the fifties, and remembers seeing bandages and bullet-casings. Arid environment. Once the moisture is gone, the stuff just keeps lying around. Not much wild-life to carry off the /prizes/. I expect the bullet-casings are gone now, from foot-traffic up there.
The Boer trenches became mass-graves for the Brits.
I showed it to my FiL. He walked on that hill in the fifties, and remembers seeing bandages and bullet-casings. Arid environment. Once the moisture is gone, the stuff just keeps lying around. Not much wild-life to carry off the /prizes/. I expect the bullet-casings are gone now, from foot-traffic up there.
The Boer trenches became mass-graves for the Brits.
You should read Selous Scouts.