Army Bomb Disposal Team Clears 1,000 Unexploded Devices From Yorkshire Beach at Holdeness

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British Army bomb disposal experts have cleared as many as 1,000 unexploded devices from an area of the Yorkshire coastline.
Personnel from 29 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Search) Group, of 35 Engineer Regiment, have been operating on Cowden Sands, in Mappleton in Holderness, for more than three weeks.
Unexploded bombs in a row on Humberside coastline 070820 CREDIT British Army.jpg
The RAF and US Air Force used a 600-acre zone on the beach as a training bombing range until 1998.
Range targets were placed on the cliffs above Mappleton Beach, which forms part of the UK's fastest eroding coastline.
The rapid erosion has exposed "significant amounts" of ordnance on the beach itself.
The brigade has worked carefully to ensure controlled explosions of the munitions are carried out safely.
Since starting on 13 July, the team has made around 1,000 items of unexploded ordnance safe.
The majority of these had been practice bombs, aircraft projectiles and land service ammunition such as the historic two-inch mortar, also known as two-inch howitzer.
 
The brigade has worked carefully to ensure controlled explosions of the munitions are carried out safely.

As opposed to just stamping on them randomly :LOL::ROFLMAO:
 
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