An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was called to Pagham beach in West Sussex after the discovery of suspected WWII ordnance. The device, identified as a naval shell, was found by a member of the public and is the latest piece of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) to be exposed on Britain’s beaches by recent stormy weather.
The EOD team carried out a controlled explosion of the device in situ.
Pagham Harbour was an important location during WWII, used both as a bombing range by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and as a bombing decoy to try and attract German aircraft away from the naval facilities at Portsmouth.
See: https://www.spiritfm.net/news/sussex-news/3008498/unexploded-navy-shell-found-on-west-sussex-beach/