Timbers buried

Seldens had lived in Buckinghamshire at least since the eleventh century, when the first Sir John Selden was buried in the north transept of the new church of St. M. and St. E. Selden Manor was a long, low patchwork of a house, part stone, part brick, part timber-framed, with wings and roofs and chimneys tacked on here and there whenever a new generation could afford to make a mark. 

Bacteria and soft rot fungi are more tolerant of the low oxygen conditions in saturated wood, and in wood that is buried in sediments bacterial decay tends to predominate. Early reports identified unicellular bacteria in foundation piling and shipwreck timbers, but more recently three bacterial decay types in wood cell walls are now recognised - erosion, tunnelling and cavitation bacterial decay. 

GroKM T-torpedoes, buried beneath tbe suiikce to explode when trodden upon frridge-torpedoes (Haupt s), to rend the timbers or arches of brid in demoUshiog them and ra /uray-torpedoes, to blow up a track when a train passes, are all effisetive military devioea. 

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