Interesting News

[RedGinger]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099187/Bodies-21-German-soldiers-buried-alive-WW1-trench-perfectly-preserved-94-years-later.html

 

[cyberdigger]

Interesting read, Laur! At least there was one bottle..

 

[cyberdigger]

This is the type of stopper it has:

 

[Steve/sewell]

Nice picture Charlie that is a neat looking top.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Yes,....probably the German version of the lightning stopper....[]

 

[Wheelah23]

What an amazing article! Truly mystifying, sad, and exciting at the same time. Glad those soldiers were finally recovered.

My favorite thing was a comment on the article, though... []

"Upon the discovery of German soldiers, I would assume that the French road workers immediately surrendered."

 

[bostaurus]

Great article. The trenches were so extensive that they are everywhere and "artifacts" are being plowed up all the time by farmers.

 

[surfaceone]

Thanks for that story, Lauren.

I'm sure there are many others still entombed up and down the Western Front...

 

[surfaceone]

Wait a minute, is that a Codd? Were there German Codd's?

Oops, I guess there were...

 

[SAbottles]

Surface, quite probably. I've dug French Codds and seen one with Greek writing on it, so why not German ? Or maybe they'd "liberated" it from the British lines !