Finds and UXBs!

Jerry;32251 wrote:

Well PNK, after talking to one of the locals, it turns out to be about 3 or 4 a year, also many more are ploughed up and shells are dumped then on the side of the fields, these are then picked up or blown up on site by the bomb disposal squads. Photos to follow folks.

Some here we saw next to a water filled mine crater.
Just by the side of the road!

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Hunsdon bits and bobs




Among these are a Mosquito gun bay latch, Parachute harness clip, Part of a night fighters dipole radar antenna, Hurricane oil filler cap, Arc light carbon rods, 1½" signal cartridge base (thanks Peter!), NAAFI cup fragment, 1942 dinner plate shard, Cockpit mounted rheostat parts, Air ministry stamped inspection plates ect.

Some rather more potent items found recently.
They have been 'dealt with' and are now inert. Beware of any live ammunition, especially 20mm like these with a solid steel flat tip, but brass tips to the rounds mean they are HE explosive and should be dealt with by the authorities.

That's a 1-1/2 inch Signal Cartridge base Denis. The cartridge case was rolled and sized cardboard like a big shotgun shell so has rotted away leaving the brass or copper cap base.

And now for the detectives amongst you:

www.crashsiteorkney.com/page26.htm

1 1/2 inch signal pistol/very pistol, fired a few of those in my time. When I nwas at Pitreavie we had to ring IFS(inspectorate of flight safety) whenever we got reports of aircraft wreckage that had been found. One day I rang them about a three foot piece of aircraft wreckage that had been found by a trawler in the north sea. I told the offcer that it wasnt RAF due to the iron cross on it!

A mate and I were walking the battlefields of the Somme last week.
As usual there are various examples of the Iron Harvest lying everywhere.

One evening we were in what had been King Street trench at Beaumont Hamel near the hamous Hawthorne Mine and Sunken Road etc. When looking arouns I found some old food tins including a corned beef one.

The best find was the fuse of a british anti-personel shell however nearbyI also found a belt buckle which got me thinking as to the huge human cost.

What heppened to the wearer of the buckle. - Did he survive, did he die, is he still there????

Very thought provoking. There but for the grace of god etc etc.

found the old rubbish tip for Chedworth a while back,there was enough NAFFI pottery to fill a wheelbarrow! old hobnail boots,etc need to go back some time with a spade.
I found this little pot too,could it have been for tooth powder or ointment?



I spoke to the chap that owns the quarry where the tip is located and he said that stuff was brought there by the truck load and tipped in the hole,must be tons of good stuff down there!

ricasso;45573 wrote:

found the old rubbish tip for Chedworth a while back,there was enough NAFFI pottery to fill a wheelbarrow! old hobnail boots,etc need to go back some time with a spade.
I found this little pot too,could it have been for tooth powder or ointment?

Looks like an inkwell to me.

Tommy

Highly possible Tommy,do you think it would be deep enough though?