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Brit farmer's incredible discovery as he digs up tank which sank 70 years ago
tank that washed away and sank during floods in 1947 has incredibly been found and dug up by a British farmer.Daniel Abbott has spent the last three years examining records and exploring the area of Crowland, Lincolnshire, to try and locate the Buffalo military tank.He discovered the vehicle, which weighs an incredible 20 tons, had in fact been buried underneath 30 feet of clay beneath the Cambridgeshire Fens for 74 years and set about recovering it.Mr Abbott, who is chairman of Crowland Buffalo LVT - a group aiming to save historical information in the area, said his team had to carry out "a lot of digging by hand" as well as use a machine from the North Level Drainage Board (NLIDB) in order to uncover the vehicle.He said: "I couldn’t