Finds and UXBs!

I remember seeing a Ju88 cockpit cover being used as a greenhouse just outside Cromer, Norfolk in the 1970's.

Phil...wonder what happened to that!! You can still the odd anderson shelter being used as sheds in allotments as well!

lee999 wrote:

Phil...wonder what happened to that!! You can still the odd anderson shelter being used as sheds in allotments as well!

Believe it or not someone was selling the shelter from the bottom of their garden on eBay a while back.

Someone will buy it, after all theyre not being made anyore!

A Horsa fuselage section was found a few years ago being used as a garden shed. It was swapped for a new shed by a local aviation group but I can't remember where that was. The Ju88 canopy could possibly still be there, last time I was up that way the site was enclosed by trees.

I have .5 cartidge picked up at Polebrook. Speaking of which, when I was still in the UK the neighbours kid brought back some live .5 rounds he found with his mates, the little sod couldnt tell me exactly where although I reckon I have a fair idea and given the proximity to Glatton, I would think he had found a crash site.

A slight aside, is it good research (and I will use the term archeology) to pick up finds and remove them without a full record being made? 30 years ago, I would not have given it a thought, now I am not so sure, any one care to comment?

kebecker wrote:

A slight aside, is it good research (and I will use the term archeology) to pick up finds and remove them without a full record being made? 30 years ago, I would not have given it a thought, now I am not so sure, any one care to comment?

I dont think there is a great deal to learn by recording what is basically scrap. It is not as if our recent history is not documented enough. Artifacts from ancient times can help to build a picture of what life was like. I somehow doubt that we can learn anything from pieces of scrap alloy or steel from an old airfield. I tend to pick up and keep items found on airfields as momentos. But I suppose if you look at it, in 500 years time these could have some small significance. They are of course a link with the past activities of the airfield.

Mosquito Cannon bay latch and Hurricane oil tank filler cap

JimC is an extremely gifted finder of all things metallic! get him to post a few images

Thanks Denis. Trouble is, most of it is unidentifiable!

I have always said metal detect round the old airfields. I have found boxes of bits at an old field where lancs mossies and p40s b25s were scrapped, best bit is nose skinning from the bombaimers blister nose area of a lanc complete with bombaimers dimmer switch and placard!

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Well the thread said UXB, and yes I know they are a little off topic, but I would think Olympusman gets to see this type of thing a lot