Soviet position at the Pilis mountains

In 2001 we found the remains of a Soviet position. During the first search we found some POMZ mines with metal detector. The POMZ-2 is an anti-personal mine with tripwire fuze. The size of the site we searched was 50 X 50 m. We found many POMZ cast iron bodies, but fortunately only four of them were live mines, the most we found were without explosive charges and fuzes. We found some hand grenades as well. After finding some Hungarian hand grenades and a large fragment of an exploded POMZ mine, we thought that we found the traces of a Hungarian or German attack against the position.
We decided to excavate the trenches. Originally they were about 120 cm deep. At the bottom of the trenches we found only some Soviet live rifle and pistol ammunition. Interestingly - searching the front bank of the trenches - we found a reasonably high number of spent Soviet cartridge cases. During the excavations we have not found a single Hungarian or German item exept the grenades (which could be a captured staff) and a grenade safety. It betoken us that there was no fight in the trench. It seems that the Soviet soldiers often shot in front of the trench. Probably after hearing a noise from anywhere, they come out of trench and opened fire.
We found the pull safety of a Hungarian Vécsey hand grenade in the trench. It showed us that the grenade was thrown by the Soviet soldiers.
We found and excavated the shelter of the commander. It was 2 X 2 m wide. The doorstep was made of board. On the left side we found the remains of a stove, a lot of ash, a lighter and some buttons.
The most POMZ iron bodies laid alone, but we found three batches of mine bodies on one stripe. It seems that the minefield was neutralised after the war. The tripwires and most of the fuzes and the charges were remowed. The iron bodies were left at the scene in three batches. But the soldiers haven't finished the demining, they left some iron bodies and live mines at their original place.

Remains of trenches					Checking with metal-detector
1st Lt. Zsolt Varga EOD officer			Live POMZ mine		Fragment of an exploded POMZ mine
Soviet hand grenade F-1			Hungarian hand grenade Vécsey		Batch of iron bodies
Artifacts with a marker flag			Hundreds of cartridge cases at the front of the trench		The dangerous artifacts
During the excavation					Pull safety of a Vécsey hand grenade (black leather handle with steel fork on the center of the pic)
Soviet ammunition in the trench			Doorstep		Lighter

The maps of the research site