WW2 device was discovered. Specialist units raced to the town of Stromness this morning after the alarm was raised on Orkney.
The teams found the three inch piece 'historic projectile ' with left over TNT. The Royal Navy Bomb disposal carried out a controlled explosion at Warbeth beach.It comes after a Coastguard Rescue Officer found the 'unusual object' on the shore at the bottom of his garden yesterday afternoon.HM Coastguard - Orkney and Shetland explained: "His training immediately kicked in, recognising the object looked like ordnance."Following consultation with Royal Navy Bomb disposal, they arrived in Stromness this morning and carried out a controlled explosion at Warbeth beach."The piece of ordnance was a 3 inch historic.
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