Cordons have been removed at a village in the Isle of Wight after an unexploded World War Two (WWII) Incendiary Bomb (IB) was discovered in a local garden.
The device was discovered last Friday by a resident off Main Road in Wellow. The police were called and a cordon was established.
A Royal Navy Bomb Disposal Unit attended the scene, describing the device as a “small World War Two incendiary”.
The IB was relocated to a nearby field and destroyed in a controlled explosion.
Parts of the Isle of Wight were significantly bombed during WWII. The exposed position of the island on the south coast and a number of important ship-building and military establishments saw the Luftwaffe target the area during numerous low-level raids between 1940 and 1944.
Official figures show that more than 1,800No. High Explosive (HE) bombs and and several thousand IBs were dropped on the Isle of Wight during WWII.
For more information on IBs and other aerial-dropped ordnance, visit our Data Sheets page.