Upcoming Finnish Civil War, Second World War and Cold War Conflict Archaeology projects in Hanko and Western Uusimaa

Spring is coming and with it some very interesting old and new modern conflict archaeology projects.

Already in late April we will kick off the 2025 field season with field surveys and trial excavations of Finnish Civil War (1918) sites in Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Inkoo.

German field artillery in Espoo (Kilo) in April 1918. Photo Espoo City Museum.

In May we will continue our excavations in the area of the Soviet Cold War era tank training gounds in Kirkkonummi. We will also do some field surveys in the larger Kirkkonummi area.

A Soviet Cold War period (tank) traffic sign. Photographer unknown.

In late May we will continue ou research of the battlefields of the Hanko front in co-operation with Thure Galléns stiftelse, Hanko Front Museum, SFV:s somaruni and students from Swedish speaking highschools in the Uusimaa region. 

A Finnish MG post in the archipelago during the battles of the Hanko front (1941). Photo SA-kuva.