Whitley: Ilkley Moor
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Our search of the area around Cowper's Cross yielded this twisted bit of aluminium. It was a long way away from the area we were advised to look in, and it doesn't look anything like the bits of wreckage previous hunters claim to have found. We are not convinced, but just maybe...
We are not sure if there are two Whitleys on the Moor, or one. Richard Allenby told us one, but his website shows two...
Location:SE 103 457
Further info(Richard Allenby)
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...