Arms House

As you might expect, excavation work at the 2012 Games site in Stratford is yielding all manner of buried treasures: a cobbled street, graves of early eastenders (though Reg Cox has yet to be disinterred), even radioactive doohickies. Here's the latest haul: a collection of firearms found on the site of the aquatics centre by workmen. The stash comprises a replica Colt, two single shot rifles, and two sawed-off barrels, and are thought to date from around WW2, giving rise to a half-century's worth of pie-eyed stories about how they came to be buried in east end.