Further to some recent correspondence, we decided to search up from Crowden Brook towards what is believed by some to be the terminal site of this still unlocated Blenheim Bomber crash.
Like all others we are aware of, we failed to find any trace of the 'plane on the mountain.
On the other hand, we did get to be overtaken by little old ladies (amongst many others) on what seemed to be the most well-trafficked route up Kinder we have yet been on.
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A pit containing large pieces of aluminium skinning from Halifax DG404 on Brown Hill Plain (some give it as Heathfield Moor or even Ashfold Side Beck) on the moors above Pateley Bridge
Location: SE 09570 67520
After the Wellington Memorial we started the day's job of revisiting sites where we had received enough additional information since our last visit to be fairly confident of clearing them.
This is a view down the gully where the Cessna crashed on Broadlee Bank Tor, above Edale.
Whilst we are happy we have found the site ( a fair bit up the gully from the photo location) by photo-matching, metal detection showed there to be not a scrap of tin left at the site.
We don't want our site to degenerate to the state of some others on the 'net where we take a picture from half a mile away of a field and claim to have identified the site, but this pic will help you find the site if you are looking, and we really cannot find any physical evidence at this site.
This was the last remaining site on Kinder which we considered to have a good chance of definitively locating without in-depth research.
Location:SK 11375 86122
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Our second visit to the Waterhouses crash site of this Oxford yielded this scrap of debris.
Access to the site was facilitated by the river being unexpectedly completely dry.
Pat Cunningham's information is a bit poor at this site, probably for the main reason we had such difficulty locating it: the trees on the steep bank block the GPS signal pretty effectively.
His given coordinates are for example 50m below his given elevation data, and on the wrong side of the river.
Our location info at this site is at least on the right side of the river, but it will not be as accurate as usual, maybe +/- 50 ft.
Location:SK 09323 50138
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The Botha wreckage was just where we left it in May last year, and looked just the same too. Our co-ords are also good.
Location:SK 11077 97532
The remains of this Defiant on Bleaklow appear all to still be intact, despite our publishing the coordinates of the site almost a year ago on here.
The dire warnings that publishing coordinates will result in sites being looted we have been receiving from wreckologists appear groundless.
But of course we knew that. It is the aircraft nuts who are taking bits, and they know where the sites are. What would walkers want a bit of old scrap metal for?
Proved the site of the crash of this Wellington next to the A515 near Newhaven. 30 yards behind the bodged wall shown in the pic of our first attempt, the ground is apparently full of metal scraps like these.
Location:SK 15671 61630
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One of a couple of unexciting scraps found at the site of the 1943 crash of this Blenheim near Matlock.
Location:SK 34310 66231
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This memorial marks the exact spot where this Wellington Bomber crashed in 1943, killing two and injuring three of those on board.
We found a few scraps in the surrounding well-harrowed fields, but we understand that although aluminium is regularly turned up by the farmer, the area has been well picked over by enthusiasts...
Location:SJ 95143 45878
More info: none available online, seems this is the only mention of this site on the 'net.
This Whitley crashed just over the wall from the Tissington Trail. A bit of corroded steel found on the surface, with many more bits detected underground.
Location: SK 15033 55671
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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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A scrap of copper from the wreck of this Wellington near Ughill.
Location: SK 26395 89265
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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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As Mick blogged, the impact site of the DC3 G-AHCY formerly known as C-47A-20-DK 42-92543 and KG348 was confirmed the week before last as SE 01509 02433
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Stirling:Lake Rudyard
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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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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...