Someone has been doing some serious, metal-detector assisted digging in and around the crater left by this Hurricane on Fleet Green. This smallish stuff left by the side of the crater looks like the things they found too uninteresting to take away to us...
Location: SK 04742 61315
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This memorial to Halifax RT922's base slabs registered as full of aluminium by metal detector, unlike the apparent crash site crater location a short distance away. We speculate that all of the metal from the aircraft previously made into a temporary memorial at the church has been incorporated into the structure.
Memorial location:SK 06340 55293
Crater location:SK 06273 55316
We had some help from itinerant metal detectorists at the crash site of this Wellington, who had found a 0.303 bullet in the adjoining field. I'm not entirely sure however that their bits (the ones with some structure) are from a 'plane. I'm pretty sure that the shapeless lump of aluminium top and centre is though...
Location:SK 06766 55060
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Scraps of the wreck adorn this home-made memorial at the Thornecliffe wreck site of a Thunderbolt. We found the bit bottom right of the photo on the way to the site.
Memorial location:SK 02102 57764
Found scrap location:SK 02089 57873
In line with our recent push on V1 sites, here are two chunks of steel shrapnel from the crater left by a V1 which exploded short of its Manchester target on the moors above Buxton.
Peakland Air Crashes said there was no metal here, but it was quite easy to find, more as described by Alan Clark.
Location:SK 06177 77912
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The crater left by this V1 on Black Edge near Buxton. Nice light,eh!
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A flake of aluminium from the crash of this Anson near Buxton. Sorry about the rubbish photo, we were in a hurry to finish up before we were out of light.
Location:SK 04606 75102
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