Bomb experts called after another device found in Bowerhill

BOMB experts were called to Bowerhill for the second time within a month after the discovery of another old World War Two device. 

The discovery was again made by workers on the new Herman Miller site last week, who called police before they attended with bomb experts. Fears the device might be live meant the A350 was closed whilst the bomb disposal team examined it before x-rays revealed the 200lb shell did not contain any explosives and was not a threat.

The discovery at the same site weeks earlier forced similar action.

PC Barry Dalton who was at the scene when the first incident was reported said, “An army unit from Tidworth came to check the device which had been exposed during the site excavation. They x-rayed it and removed it from the site once they established it was safe. Their evaluation was that it would have been an airborne device that would have been dropped during the war.”