Relic / ground dug Gun Plate - AT gun?

[Uffz. Rohleder]

Hello all,

today i found this heavy armor plate. It got a hit and was teared apart. It has a distinct pattern like the shield of the german LeIG 18. but it isnt.

I saw such a shield before but I can't remember were

Edited March 16, 2018 by Uffz. Rohleder

[Bayern]

Perhaps a Italian one ? The Farina breastplate ?

[Uffz. Rohleder]

Thanks Bayern,

but it's more like a gun plate from an at gun or an artillery. We found an untouched battlefield / gun position. Looks like the position was heavy shelled. Found even parts of an halftrack.

 

You don't have to dig because everything scattered around

[Uffz. Rohleder]

here a (bad) drawing of what the shield looks like unbendet. I tried to draw all the rivets / rivetholes I found

the red lines are where the shield is ripped off.

[Bayern]

Rohleder : In which battlefield was digged out ?

[Uffz. Rohleder]

central Germany

thats a very close Call.

it fits from the size and the rivets. Even the small attached metal plate is visible.

 

10,5cm Leichtgeschütz 42

[Uffz. Rohleder]

[Bayern]

It fits , the question is to know if any unit equiped with the 105 mm LG operated in the area where the shield was found.