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British SMLE bayonet and Auxiliary gators

"In 1920, my great grandmother threw two revolvers into the local river and buried a British Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle wrapped in hessian sacking in the acre adjacent to her cottage. My father found it when planting potatoes in the 1970s. The bayonet, a grenade, belt and gators from the uniform of a British Auxiliary were also found in the cottage in the 1970s. All these artefacts (as well as many other objects and specimens) are now on view in my antiquarian bookshop; Gadaí Dubh Books, in Ballymakeera village, Macroom, Co. Cork. Gadaí Dubh Books is on Facebook."

Submitted by: Conor Kelleher