Last one of the day, the 15th August 1944 crash site of Stirling EE975 on Old Cote Moor. There's scraps in the scree at the foot of the cliff that this site is on top of as well.
Location: SD 92766 72654
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Friday, 26 June 2020
Short Stirling Mk.III EE975
Last one of the day, the 15th August 1944 crash site of Stirling EE975 on Old Cote Moor. There's scraps in the scree at the foot of the cliff that this site is on top of as well.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Short Stirling Mk.III LK502
Stirling:Lake Rudyard
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2
Previously molten chunks of aluminium, scraps, and a marked negative terminal at the impact site of the Stirling bomber which crashed near Rudyard Lake. There are also many scraps around this location, and an adjacent patch of bare earth riddled with minutiae. Hard to believe it hasn't been kept bare by generations of souvenir hunters scratching around for bits.
Location:SJ 93949 59825
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Wednesday, 2 April 2008
DeHavilland Vampire T. Mk.11 XE866
Vampire: Stanage Edge
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2
Lots of bits from the crash site of this Vampire on Stanage Edge. One is marked with the part number: Z27166/1. The site is a long way from the coordinates given in Ron Collier's book.
Location: SK 22429 85704
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Short Stirling Mk.III LK502-Post reproduced from Google cache after inadvertent deletion
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Stirling Mk.III LK502
Stirling:Lake Rudyard
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2
Previously molten chunks of aluminium, scraps, and a marked negative terminal at the impact site of the Stirling bomber which crashed near Rudyard Lake. There are also many scraps around this location, and an adjacent patch of bare earth riddled with minutiae. Hard to believe it hasn't been kept bare by generations of souvenir hunters scratching around for bits.
Location:SJ 93949 59825
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Thursday, 3 January 2008
Short Stirling Mk.I N6075
Stirling:Merryton Low
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2
Second of two Stirling bomber wreck sites today, this site apparently has a chequered history. First there was surface wreckage as reported by the "Peak District Air Accident Research" website, later it was a metal detector only site according to Pat Cunningham's "Peakland Air Crashes". When we visited, there was both surface wreckage, and sub-surface wreckage. Please don't use our coordinates to steal it. You could even add to it any bits you find for others to see. Imagine that!
Location:SK 03808 61161
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Friday, 27 April 2007
Short Stirling LJ628
We visited this RAF Stirling crash site on 26th April 2007. We found a group of good sized pieces of wreckage in a clough around 1/3 of a mile away from the main group of wreckage, and well away from any coordinates published elsewhere.
This wreckage is at:
SK 20721 95701.
The former main group of wreckage was cleared, by the Stirling Project. There are however many fragments and small groups of wreckage left over near the commonly published coordinates, in particular on a line between SK 20336 95659 and
SK 20218 95590, where you can see this pile of wreckage.
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This wreckage is at:
SK 20721 95701.
The former main group of wreckage was cleared, by the Stirling Project. There are however many fragments and small groups of wreckage left over near the commonly published coordinates, in particular on a line between SK 20336 95659 and
SK 20218 95590, where you can see this pile of wreckage.
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The reason for it not beingpicked over is the exact location has not been widely published before and publishing it inevitably leads to the site vanishing.
I am saying that I believe that for a bit of grassland to stay bare for fifty years, it has been picked over many times. It is clearly visible from the path.
These sites have mostly already vanished. We have never taken a scrap from them. Can you say the same?
As someone who has taken part in numerous licenced excavations and recoveries I think we all know the answer to the question.
Though most people who just go to sites and pick bits up have no idea what they have picked up and often become bored of the items and eventually discard them. At leas twith the items that I have got I know what they are, where they came from.
You may not have come across the request yet but I have (simply if you do something for long enough you'll see everything), when metal detecting I have been asked to remove what I find or just get rid of it into a ditch or hedge (which removes the items from context) as the farmers don't want the items on their land. One even said to me he was fed up with pulling bits from tractor and implement tyres.
Interesting...