Buried Treasure

[Chandler]

Huge US amphibious tank craft from World War II discovered buried 30 feet underground in an English field

In 1947, a US-made Buffalo LVT landing craft was swept away by severe floods in Lincolnshire, England, and buried deep underground.

www.businessinsider.com

You UK members need to invest in metal detectors!

 

[bazzer]

It's looks incredible condition for how long it's been in the earth
Thank you for sharing
Baz

 

[B-Man2]

How did that thing ever get that deep into the ground ? Amazing .

 

[Micawber]

Huge US amphibious tank craft from World War II discovered buried 30 feet underground in an English field

In 1947, a US-made Buffalo LVT landing craft was swept away by severe floods in Lincolnshire, England, and buried deep underground.

www.businessinsider.com

You UK members need to invest in metal detectors!

I did years ago...

BBC version ..

Crowland WWII Buffalo LVT dug up after 74 years underground

The craft is in "fantastic" condition despite its subterranean stay says the man behind the dig.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Silver Surfer]

how about whole ancient cities buried deeply underground or water for centuries. wind, tide, moving sand, seismic upheavals, etc. or for that matter, building foundations found 20-30 feet underground in nyc, Rome, London, et al. Mother Earth giveth, and Mother Earth taketh away.

 

[leper-colony]

Ran when parked...

 

[Lorenzo_l]

How did that thing ever get that deep into the ground ? Amazing .

Being surplus to requirements right after the war, they were used as flood defenses in a flood-prone area. It was not hard for the successive tides over the years to dump sand and mud over the thing and burry it 30-feet deep!

 

[busdrivermike]

I know here in Canada in the northern areas with uranium mines
They entomb equipment like giant caterpillar tractors and diggers
In the mines As they become to radio active to use
And I read several years ago they were burying construction machines
In London England, a future mystery to be discovered

BURIED ALIVE: Why London contractors entombed up to $10 million worth of perfectly good excavators beneath their jobsites

Typically, excavators are the ones doing the digging; doing the uncovering and the filling. But deep below the streets of west London, thousands of excavators have met a cruel fate. One in which they have dug their own graves. According to a report from the New Statesman, a trend began in the...

www.equipmentworld.com

 

[Micawber]

"The amphibious vehicle was one of 16 deployed to protect the town in March 1947 after floods caused the nearby River Welland to burst its banks
However, as the flood waters were pumped back, five of the 26ft-long machines floated away. One was later recovered, two sank in fishing pits and two sank into a hole"

 

[ausreenactor]

How did that thing ever get that deep into the ground ? Amazing .

SNCOs can get the troops to do ANYTHING!