Andrew Chatterton

No, exactly.

You don't want that falling on your... You know, these things weren't built with health and safety in mind.

No, there's no... So usually there's metal... In the corner of the shaft, there's metal bits going down.

They've either been taken out or they've rusted away.

Or it's just... Right, right.

saying earlier there's collapse but the entrance shaft had been filled in and we excavated the entrance shaft at the bottom of the entrance shaft was everything they dropped in in november 44 when they closed it up so at the bottom was like a miles worth of telephone wire that would have connected it to the um observation post but also the mechanism and it's one of those uh counterweight ones so you've got the weight system on and it's one of those on your stamp on it flips up and swivels around all

the mechanism was just at the bottom of the shaft where they just dismantled it and then so yeah we found some of that and what did you do with that did you keep it like because it feels like that's museum stuff yeah and recorded it all because you know the landowner's not interested in it it's not bits of rusty metal to him it's an old telephone wire so yeah it's all recorded and

and kept in a safe place so and when this one was found do you know if it was like absolutely full up with mud and everything did they have to dig it out or do you know i don't think so what it was what it was what it still got in there at the moment apart from bats is um it's uh it's debris from the 50s and 60s where someone's looks like kids have got yeah kids have got in there and then just in this one yeah

What a place for a den.

Yeah, exactly.

What an amazing den.

Yeah, exactly.

And what we haven't found here yet, so in the middle of the roof of the chamber there are four...

vent pipes that way that way that way and that way and we haven't found out where they probably one comes out in this bank somewhere and they all seem intact at the moment so we haven't we need to find out got to do the smoke so we use smoke flares we put them in the see where it comes out and then smoke so we did one in south wales

And they were like 60 yards away, like just smoke pouring out of the ground.

And then you scrape it back and there's these pipes coming out.

Yeah, and there's smoke literally pouring out of the ground.

Amazing.

But they all had bits of gauze over to stop Germans throwing grenades down them as well.

So that was still all in place as well.