Pensioner who found a filled-in stone well under his SOFA hits water after digging down 17ft
Colin Steer, 67, from Plymouth, has also discovered two German incendiary bombs with his shovel
A PENSIONER who found a filled-in stone well under his sofa has hit water after digging down 17ft.
Colin Steer spotted a dip by a bay window when he and wife Vanessa moved into the Victorian terraced home more than 30 years ago.
They covered it up as they had three small children, but Colin started investigating in 2011 when he retired as a civil servant.
Finally he and a neighbour spent six months excavating with a ladder and a bucket on a pulley.
Colin, 67, of said: “I always wanted to dig it out to see if I could find a pot of gold at the bottom.
“It’s 30 inches wide now and could go down another five or six feet.
“We have no idea when it was built.
"There could have been a couple of cottages here or it could have served a farm.”
German Incendiary bomb like the one Mr Steer found in his back yard
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He went on: “I thought I’d found a sword around 4ft down. It was a wooden thing that must have had a leather sheath on it as you can see stitch holes.
“That’s why I want to get to the bottom. Who knows what’s down there? I would like to find something to give me an age.”
The well hasn’t been Colin’s only dramatic find. In 2012 he was carrying out building work in the back garden when he unearthed two German incendiary bombs with his shovel.
Experts placed them in sand boxes and took them away for safe detonation.
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