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Re: Time Team Spitfire dig
Posted by Elliott on Fri Feb 15, 2002 12:12:56 PM
In reply top Re: Time Team Spitfire dig posted by Cees Broere on Fri Feb 15, 2002 05:14:17 AM
HI Cees
I was told by one of the people on that dig that the archaeologist was carefully excavating the bullets as she was under the impression they had lain there since 1940. It took a long time, anyway a bit later on one of the people who had checked out the site previously told her they had dug them up with a detector several months before and thrown aside.... She was not at all happy!!!
: You will certainly enjoy watching it Dave,
:
: Also when one of the "normal" archaeolgists is carefully d
: igging around some bullets and obviously being very nervou
: s about them.
:
: As some sort of miracle they uncover parts of both wings a
: nd find the serialnumber of the Spit at a very shallow dep
: th. Now, that is something that rarely happens during our
: excavations.
:
: However, if we needed three days to recover such a wreck t
: hen the landowner would have us shot on site I think.
:
: Cees