Covenanter Tank hulk recovered in 2017
 

This popped up today. Anyone know more to the story?

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-d-day-history

There is a long running thread over on www.hmvf.co.uk on this, worth joining and reading

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread...anter-recovery

Rick Wedlock, the TANK HUNTER!

it was me that found it and dug it up with a lot of help from some friends.

Great story! Looking forward to updates.

(And no, I've found anything that cool while digging in the dirt.)

terry you're just not looking hard enough :)

i heard about the tank several years ago but did nothing about it until the issue was brought up again on another forum. i decided i should go down and have a look.
i contacted the vineyard and they seemed keen to help, so in january i went down with my labourers and found the tank quite quickly using a proton magnetometer. we had really good info on it's possible location from the vineyard owner and ian hughes (who had also surveyed the site 12 years ago but didn't dig a test pit to confirm the presence of the tank)

the vineyard were keen to publicise the event and sent a film guy down to record it.
this is the video he made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzybfURolk

Free wine for life now?

i got 6 bottles and shared them with ian. i'm more of a lager drinker anyway :D
this is ian driving his giant yank forklift, very handy piece of kit it was too