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I lived in Witney from 1979 to 1984. I would cycle around the county and area picking up Spitfire mainwheels, tailwheels and glider wheels from ditches, gardens etc.

We dug up on the dumps referred to in about 2000/1, we could not (were not allowed to) take in a digger…found some Spiteful parts…only small….the site is built on as is another where we found 14+ spitfire windscreen units and about 1000 others off other aircraft types. Also dug various maintenance units…those were the days!!
the main German stuff is apparently under the runway!