Lovely photos, very sharp. Thank you for posting them.

Interesting post. Thank you.

Ok, Jason.h, I see where you are coming from regarding the digging, it was obviously a Council Farm .That would make it more of a problem, There would definitely be no human remains as you said it landed undamaged, as for ordnance, they would have been pretty irresponsible to leave anything in it before burying it, but who knows.                                     Good luck with it and keep us updated on your progress.

I am just wondering what happened to it, if it landed undamaged. Surely your friends would have known where it went to especially as it was on their ground and they were avid plane spotters. If it was intact there would be nothing to dig for unless someone dug a hole and buried it some years later, which seems unlikely as it would have probably been worth more in scrap than all the effort to bury it.

Anyway good luck with your search, hope  you are successful.

Yes totally agree, fantastic identification anneorac, a brilliant job and well done Stephen Howes for having such a lovely piece of kit.

Yes I saw it over there too, what a great pity, really sad to hear this.

Unfortunately I think you are correct Oracal, especially the way the economic climate is these days but we can always hope.

That is quite heavily built, I would tend to think it of agricultural origin. Sorry I can’t be of more help.