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Fuzes found in Greater London near Fairlop airfield

nice fuses i do metal detecting as well but i only search beaches where theres been old fireing ranges im searching somewhere at the moment where gravel was dumped years ago you can get all sors out of it 20m orelikon shells 50 cals bullets and so on i see you have found a number 199 im still searching the beaches for one what metal detector do you use i use a dfx300
 
nope no fuse yet and no german stuff i dont know why even when we catch stuff out at sea on the boat its always british stuff how many 199 fuses have you found and have you found any drive band
 
Hi William.I didn't realise you were finding things via your trawler. How interesting! Anything big? Detected about 1,000 hours last year, and what you see on the site is what I have found...on the completish front

For interest, yesterday I was detecting in a field near RAF Fairlop and I came across loads of metal and, after researching, it is this site:

http://www.smartin67.freeserve.co.uk/wgs.htm

Don't really know much about militaria. Which is a drive band amongst these?:

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1440&bih=688
 
will try to find this. It was a V2 that landed there, not a V1

http://www.newhamstory.com/node/1709

http://www.newhamstory.com/node/1493

information of firing:

from: http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/timeline.html


[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Nov. 18[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1], (11.12 hours) - [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Battery 444[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1], (Site 47), V-2 rocket fired, impacted either Stanford Rivers, Essex (fell in field. No damage or casualties) or Ilford, Essex (1 dead, 6 seriously injured. ‘Dick Turpin’ public house demolished). (*JP)
[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Nov. 18[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1], (11.13 hours) - [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1]Battery 444[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=-1], (Site 47), V-2 rocket fired, impacted either Stanford Rivers, Essex (fell in field. No damage or casualties) or Ilford, Essex (1 dead, 6 seriously injured. ‘Dick Turpin’ public house demolished). (*JP)[/SIZE][/FONT]
 
i cannot go into great detail as to what comes up on the trawler as i was told off by one of the moderators yesterday for saying too much but i visited my friend yesterday he went metal detecting o saturday and found some cannon balls and a 25 pounder armour piercing shot along with some 50 cal and 20mm cases all the items were inert and legal to own so not bad realy
 
Didn't know it would be on the Official Secrets but I stand corrected

Sounds like a great day. Well done on the finds! I bet it was windy!

You find stone age stuff, too?

Learnt this in school during statistics:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/stat.web/bomb.htm

During World War II, London was assaulted with German flying-bombs on V-2 rockets. The British were interested in whether or not the Germans could actually target their bomb hits or were limited to random hits with their flying-bombs. R. D. Clarke in his article, An Application of the Poisson Distribution, which appeared in the JOURNAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES Vol 72 (1946), p. 481, shows the analysis which led the British to determine whether or not the Germans could target their bombs or were merely limited to random hits. It should be noted that this analysis is very important. For if the Germans could only randomly hit targets, then deployment throughout the countryside of various security installations would serve quite well to protect them, as random bombing over a wide range was unlikely to hit a given target. However, if the Germans could actually target their flying-bombs, then the British were faced with a more potent opponent and deployment of security installations would do little to protect them.
 
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For information:

There is a record of one V-2, fortuitously observed at launch from a passing American B-24 Liberator, being shot down by .50 caliber machine-gun fire.[36]
The limitations of any countermeasures can be understood by two facts: 20 seconds after launch, a V2 was out of reach; the time from launch to impact in London being merely 3 minutes.


the V-2's speed and trajectory made it invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to four times the speed of sound (appr.
 
yeah my friend said it was windy and it was a 7 in the morning low tide ive decided to go tomorow to try and get some 6 pounder cannon balls do you find many other milirary artifacts surly you must find small bits and pices of shells and aircraft
 
As a matter of interest, last year I detected in a place in Great London that wasn't near an airfield and found loads of 303 shells. I have detected in 2 fields next to the airfield this year and in about 50 hours I have only found 1 303 shell. So the guess is that no firing was allowed near airfields?
 
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