MikeyH Posted 13 May , 2018 Share Posted 13 May , 2018 (edited) On Yesterday (Freeview channel 19) on Wednesday 16th at 8.00 pm, a team digs at Pond Farm and 'unearths a rare artifact from the opening day of the battle'. Sounds intriguing. Mike. Edited 13 May , 2018 by MikeyH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robins2 Posted 14 May , 2018 Share Posted 14 May , 2018 I wonder what the rare artifact might be??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 14 May , 2018 Share Posted 14 May , 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwin astill Posted 16 May , 2018 Share Posted 16 May , 2018 On 14/05/2018 at 05:03, robins2 said: I wonder what the rare artifact might be??? Part set of someone's gnashers. Edwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 16 May , 2018 Share Posted 16 May , 2018 And an Austrian shell, unfired, with safety wire still in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 16 May , 2018 Share Posted 16 May , 2018 British 18 pounder fuse dated July 1917 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 16 May , 2018 Share Posted 16 May , 2018 Not wishing to appear underwhelmed, but they found some bullet clips, shrapnel balls, and unexploded shells. Not exactly surprising. What was food for thought was the presenters struggling to walk through the clay soil they had dug up. How much more difficult must it have been under fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 17 May , 2018 Share Posted 17 May , 2018 10 hours ago, paulgranger said: Not wishing to appear underwhelmed, but they found some bullet clips, shrapnel balls, and unexploded shells. Not exactly surprising. What was food for thought was the presenters struggling to walk through the clay soil they had dug up. How much more difficult must it have been under fire. I suspect that the general public would have been quite impressed with what, to GWF members, might seem routine. Personally, I would have been very pleased to have been handed a newly unearthed (unmudded?), minty looking nosecone to add to mine Perhaps not the shrapnel balls or shell fragments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 17 May , 2018 Share Posted 17 May , 2018 (edited) well I enjoyed it, have had the privilege of going to pond farm and meeting stijin,and a jolly fine fellow he is .mind I did pucker up while standing near the cage full waiting for devo,to collect,I asked are these dangerous "no but these are as he picked up a detonator"change of trousers required back at hotel ??? At least the Canadian as in his last two documentaries Ypres/Somme didnt keep referring to "stuff "as war junk Biffo Edited 18 May , 2018 by BIFFO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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