Signs of distant days

It's clear from the detritus you find about, that the forest was once more intensively used or at least used in different ways than it is today. Crushed tin baths are a phenomena throughout the wooded parts of the forest. Whether signs of a long ago settled itinerant  population, the forest was once famed for it Gypsy communities, or evidence of one of the many hastily constructed and subsequently hastily abandoned temporary camps created amongst the forests shading stands in the run up to D Day during the latter part of the Second World War, is uncertain. Tin bath finds though are a very common find. Often other artifacts can be identified nearby, similarly they too share a cultural and period ambiguity making association with specific groups or periods near impossible.