A few years ago I did some metal detecting at RAF Broadwell and found a few items, mainly used Very cartridges and assorted odds and sods but nothing of any particular interest, I have a feeling the site may have been heavily metal detected before me or I am not particularly good at detecting, interestingly I did find the base of a 1940’s RAF char mug, how I found a ceramic mug base with a metal detector I have no idea but it is obviously testament to my skill. Interestingly the bomb dump was absolutely spotless and I was unable to detect any sort of metal there which surprised me a bit.
Just looking through the items I found I have noticed a single bit which looks to be from an aircraft. The channel has zinc chromate painted on all faces but has no numbers on it at all, Gliders and C-47’s operated out of Broadwell and I know some Gliders were wrecked here from a storm and on takeoff. If anyone was able to identify the channel and what it is from I would be most grateful,
Cheers
Matt
By: Bager1968 - 11th March 2011 at 05:18
interestingly I did find the base of a 1940’s RAF char mug, how I found a ceramic mug base with a metal detector I have no idea but it is obviously testament to my skill.
Cheers
Matt
Many ceramic glazes used to contain lead… perhaps there was just enough to disturb the magnetic fields a tad.
By: Augsburgeagle - 10th March 2011 at 12:40
Thanks alot for the ideas guys, I need to go back and have another look around this time on the southern side. I’d like to find the bomb craters were the ju88 dropped it’s bombs on the airfield, I’ve seen the machine gun hits on the water tower at brize but no bomb damage, so far!
By: Arabella-Cox - 7th March 2011 at 15:13
The “Knob” with POS on it is from an aircraft battery.
By: Soggy - 7th March 2011 at 09:37
I always make a complete a**e of myself when responding here, but I wonder if that is part of a ‘weak link’ from a glider tow cable, whereby pins would shear at loads above a certain value ensuring that the glider/tug would not be damaged.
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th March 2011 at 22:38
You might want to keep your eye’s “up” when looking around Broadwell. Back in the early 90’s I found an aircraft fireaxe embedded in a tree and a couple of glider shackles hanging on a fence. 😀
By: jayemm74 - 6th March 2011 at 22:19
That channel looks annoyingly familiar. C47? Quite likely. Possibly something from one of the wing spar compression joint attachment areas or main landing gear fork upper fittings in the nacelle (although it looks a little small). Difficult to tell without hard dimensions.
Been a very long time since I’ve maintained one and my memory’s going out like the tide. 🙁
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