I have been thinking about the Butlers farm one but it is over a year earlier than the witness states and he seems convinced about the date, he is going to look at the butlers farm location and see if it jogs a memory.

Jamie, the one at Burnham was at a place called Twizzlefoot Bridge, and we dug it in the mid 80s and the JU88S1 at havering -Atte- Bower was in 1986, we escavated another on Foulness which was not this aircraft.

I remember this Barling dig but thought it was carried out by the OLD Essex Aviation Group and was hoping someone could confirm if not it was one of the many digs carried out by induviduals who used to come together and dig but would then either leave the big parts and run or put them bac down the hole and fill it in these were the people that got Aviation Archaology a bad name as most were just after personal effects.

So we still need to find out more info

Hi Geoff,
I do recall a dig in Barling, but maybe the witness has the dates wrong. I will ask him more over the weekend,
Colin

1977, excavation of a B17 385thBG

Hi HP57,
I know of quite a few BoB wrecks to excavate still and one particular Hurricane in which we were hoping to excavate a couple of years ago but the land owner is not interested in the slightest, it has been untouched since the crash in 1940! so watch this space.