Beneath Flanders (or Wallonian) fields Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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The Traverse in the British trench, St Yvon 2009
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The team is now back from an enormously successful piece of rescue archaeology at St Yvon. For three days we recorded the remnants of a bunker that lay on the front of the British line. In association with this concrete structure was the multi-phase British fire trench, initially with brick footings and then with trench boards, corrugated iron revetting and A-frames. _
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A concrete-filled sandbag also survived. As one would expect, the trench had hundreds of spent .303 rounds, along with rum jar and more personal items such as a pipe, mirror and some printed material; perhaps part of a racy magazine story at first glance! Much more to follow…
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Remnants of the Bunker
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Thanks to the Comines-Warneton history Society, Mnr Delrue, Messines Peace Village and (of course) Claude and Nelly at L’Auberge in Ploegsteert. the weather was fine, the beer good and the team excellent. Hurrah!
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Looks like a huge amount of work went into a very short period of time. Just sorry I wasn’t part of it.