Spitfire excavation today...
 

Check this out:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13924720

They're tweeting pics as it happens:

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/5i1u9c.jpg
http://twitpic.com/5i1u9c/full
http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/5i22aw.jpg
http://twitpic.com/5i22aw/full
http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/5i259r.jpg
http://twitpic.com/5i259r/full

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/8240/digww2.jpg[/URL]

Go to twitter to see the rest http://twitpic.com/photos/DigWW2

I believed that wreckage recovery was forbidden / very difficult in UK due to the war graves law.

Well the pilot bailed in this case, so they don't expect to find a body :) Unless I'm misunderstanding you?

I remember my Dad taking me to Rye Police Station in the '80s to see recovered wreckage from a Spitfire. The pilot hadn't bailed from this one.

it could have been nice if the time team had done this and televised it. i would have enjoyed that.

It will be televised next year apparently. Part of a series of WW2 related digs.

yeah i caught that. but announced its an irish only jobbie. probally not though.

"DigWW2

@DigWW2 Battlefields

Upcoming BBC series presented by Dan Snow about WW2 archaeology in the UK, Northern Ireland & Arnhem, Holland, Italy and Normandy."

No it looks like it'll be a BBc show and probably will be shown by RTE as well at some stage ...........

the only point of danger and caution when digging relics, other than the possibility to find the pilot's rests, is the handling of unexploded ordnance/ammunition. In the case of cannons, the amount of explosives present in the shells can still be very dangerous, both for the instability of explosives left to the elements and because of the amount of them.

Why go though all this when you could do this.

Much much cheaper and a lot easier and I can't tell a difference. The Spit lives again in Texas.

Because some like their Spits slightly aged and covered in Irish bog

BBC - story behind the crash.
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13924720

RedToo.

CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!!!

Cheese