Beermat, I believe Wessex Archeaology are running the recovery and they keep thing pretty much in house, you can not blame them as they need to get on with the job and when you think of the ping pong, tit for tat im right your wrong chest pounding posts in some threads here I am quite sure they are correct in keeping mum and getting on with the job in hand in the most tespectfull way without the aid of the armchair know it all.

I’ve no doubt at all that Wessex Archaeology will be keeping firmly schtumm until they have a completed report to publish. Consider that the University of Leicester has spent more on legal fees since its excavation of the Greyfriars site than it did on the excavation, because of the legal farrago with all the people who have suddenly rode in on the back of the uncovering Richard III’s remains (and that funding was only available because of a vested interest with money to burn), and perhaps you’ll see why archaeologists like to keep their cards close to their chest.

90%plus of archaeology in Britain is carried out under contract in advance of development, with various legal conditions attached including *I think* the publication of a full report (ie this is included in the law covering such developments, not at the whim of the developer), I can’t imagine that anything will come out early without the permission of both the developer and Wessex Archaeology.

Adrian

1940s tractor tyres:

http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/21240-bomb-train-photo/

I think even the roundel police would be hard-pressed to state what the tracks would look like in the frost. Anyway, I think it’s expletive gorgeous, and am dead jealous.

Adrian

That is very, very nice, Chris! I remember being in Saffron Walden one Saturday (must have been, I took the bus!), and it seemed the sky was full of Spitfires with HFL obviously doing airtests.

Adrian

I met them at Aces High earlier this year, they were on separate tables, but Steve was very keen to point out that that was the Mrs on the other one.

A wonderful story, I wish them the very best and I wish you the very best for your gesture to them.

Adrian

I may have to develop an injury this year so I can see the show instead of playing cricket! That weekend we always seem to be playing on the Queens College ground in Oxford, and see everything heading in…

Adrian

What a great find, adds a whole new meaning to “Living History”. Where was it near Headcorn, Andy? No need to be too specific, just curious as I spent six years at school at East Sutton – which stopped 4 V1s itself, and if you ever find an impact site in the parish, I’m all ears!

Adrian

I had a chat with the lass conserving parts at the MBCC last weekend. Apparently the two main ID plates were probably fastened with magnesium rivets, which would have fizzed to nothing in no time at all in sea water, while of two other plates one had been broken off while its opposite number had been cut out. Someone, somewhere…. So it looks as though we’ll have to wait and see what evidence emerges from under the sea life. I think now it’s fairly obvious that it had laid on the open sea bottom ever since it was shot down, and was never hidden by the shifting sands, so it’s a minor miracle that as much as there is has survived.

Adrian