That’s a lot of Firefly, Should keep you busy! I’ve got four bits of a MkVII Spit which are from just close enough together to fit. Not really a project but with a proper frame to hold them it should make a suitable display.

Would love to visit as well! Came close this summer on holiday to Cornwall. Unfortunately the post wedding anniversary drive from St Ives to Crewkerne for a Spitfire dig precluded any further aviation activities that week.

I was thinking about a Trident yoke. I’ll shut up about airliners now.

Spitfireman is completely right, Graham. The only way an area like that would survive is if it popped off at the time and was liberated by a local. The same guy was selling some shamefully bad reproduction labels as original. Going into detailed rivet counting the ‘s’s were more suited to Battlestar Galactica than the Battle of Britain. If it’s any consolation, your mystery bit of Seafire is a thrust absorbing head rest for rocket assisted take offs. Top of page 175, Morgan and Shacklady’s big book of Spitfires. Cheered up, I hope so!
This radio, rather than accumulator hatch came out of a Spit which crashed fairly gently into a flooded field. They come out straighter but never that straight!

I’m pretty sure the unfortunate fellow is a Fairey Battle bomb aimer.