We knew that in
in the Irish Army records
a few meters into the bog
But because it was the wettest November
like every November in Ireland's the wettest on
all they knew they were going to drown
So it meant then that we knew
we were likely
and the the harnesses
that we were on our A-game
of archeological experience
and all the bagging
Paperwork might be in there
because we knew that
and that the state of preservation
And then we sort of did
where there's going to be bullets, right?
Well, we're going to need
to have the army bomb squad
that's likely to be lotions, potions
And we'll need to cater for that either
when we travel.
So it really set then
being a bit of an Airfix Spitfire
I suddenly needed to know every
Everything that could be
then been able to
We got our detection equipment.
We went out to the spot
and we were able to produce
a complete Spitfire, buried 33 ft
From the scan
we could see that there was
Ultimately 33 ft.
There was a peat surface
and then a sort of a....
Ten foot column of compacted Spitfire
and then a big brute down at the bottom,
the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine,
we could see six javelin like objects
spike down on various depths
If I just use this...
But we could see that the and
the spikes that were on this side
we're down deeper than the ones in
if the plane has gone in, it's gone in
And as a result, that wing has struck
all its machine guns
So we carefully scraped back
that the outermost Spitfire machine
so we knew that we were dealing with six.
And sure enough,
So we dug left and right
Browning machine guns
The deal was the guns
they were
there to and they just decommissioned
We're going to take them away, clean them
and then I would collect them
myself and Captain Lamb who headed a team
There's a bit of a barrel,
You know, there's something
The first machine gun camera
We all thought, Wow.
This... and for a minute,
this looks like the sort of thing
and we all got a wee bit more worried, like
But the dates were clearly on them
And they all come out
and there's like 300 people
You're watching this.
The army were bringing them out and showing
and the dads are standing with their sons
So it was a great learning day
and then we got the magazines
Now the port ones
as we got to the outermost guns on the wings
We were lifting the intire magazines out
all snaked up in the air and the box,
This is going to be something special.
You don't you don't see that
this is going to be a true time
If the Earth just
you and just pulled it down
