The #fenspitfire excavation becomes more and more interesting! Having found the distinctive outline of the crater on Tuesday, today we continued to dig down into the crater, stepping it down gradually to ...
Another wet and dreary day in the Fens, but nothing could curb our enthusiasm as we continued excavating the #fenspitfire! Day One finished with the trench being stripped methodically in spits; today ...
Machining to find the Great Fen Spitfire began today
The geophysical survey conducted in August by Cranfield University Forensic Institute revealed the location of the Spitfire in the field. We are taking the peat ...
A week-long excavation, to unearth a Mark 1 Spitfire which crashed at Holme Lode in the Great Fen, on 22 November, 1940 will commence on Monday 5 October. Following the excavation the ...
Geophysics has been used at a site in the Fens to pinpoint the exact site where a Spitfire crashed in November 1940. Last month, Peter Masters, Research Fellow at Cranfield University, Forensic Institute undertook the ...
TV historian Dan Snow was at the Dorset County Museum recently to film a BBC series about the Vikings, according to the Blackmore Vale Magazine. His focus was on the remains of the decapitated Vikings ...