hiding a spaceship

[kengr]

I've been thinking on yet another variation on the "people stumble across a spaceship and get it working" trope.

I'm trying to figure ways this (not alien, but from the future) spacecraft could be hidden yet findable. I figure it should have been hidden several hundred years ago, after getting sent back to the past via [much handwaving]

I figure that about the only practical way is for it to be in an underground location. Probably one that was excavated, not natural. I'm sorta stuck on how to hide the entrance since most of the ways that come to mind would either require gear they wouldn't have or look suspicious to surveyors ("Looks like somebody blasted down that cliff face, Charlie.")

So I'm asking for ideas.

Technology is pretty much that of the Treveller RPG, but with somewhat better computers.

Comments

[stickmaker]

London, England is good for that. Several years ago they found an entire wooden sailing ship in an enclosed drydock off the Thames, in a building which the government was paying to keep maintained and guarded, but which no-one had entered in centuries.

I think it was also in London that during demolition of a parking garage a few years ago they found an isolated nook with a car which had been there for decades. (IIRC the owner had reported it stolen when he couldn't find it.)

[siliconshaman]

I heard about that ship!! I was of half a mind if it was a urban legend but no, it was true.