Interesting find in one of Scotland's most famous battlefield where Braveheart did not fight.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/unexploded-mortar-shell-from-bloodiest-battle-countrys-history-unearthed-nearly-280-years

I was stationed at the Vicenza, Italy airfield from 1977-80, the 1/509th Airborne was routinely dropping parachutists there. They turned the airfield into a barracks but over the years have turned up a number of unexploded bombs there which begs the question, how many more are in that town.

https://www.stripes.com/news/2013-12-13/disposal-of-big-bomb-will-force-45000-from-northern-italy-homes-2245778.html1

Reminder that unexploded ordinance is always dangerous, but sometimes can still do good.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/detonation-of-unexploded-bombs-in-iran-reportedly-kills-14-revolutionary-guards/

Closer to home

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Matagorda Island, a former Air Force bombing and gunnery range (19411945), contains unexploded ordnance (UXO), including bombs, rockets, and small arms ammunition.

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When you visit the island, stay on the roads !

https://cwbi-app.sec.usace.army.mil/fudspublic/irm/pdf/K06TX0058_03_MMRP.pdf

I have one of these, but it's from the Civil War. Dad uncovered it in Anderson with his maintainer back in the '90s.

Recently stayed at Croft State Park in South Carolina. It's the site of a WWII infantry replacement training camp that covered 17,000 acres. Over 250,000 men trained there from 1941 to 1944, with rifles, mortars, artillery, bazookas, and anti-aircraft artillery.

There are signs all over telling you to stick to the trails in case of UXO, they are still looking for UXO, and a maintenance guy told me they recently found a couple of rounds in front of a group picnic shelter, buried two feet deep.

I told him it's the first park I've ever been to where they say "Stay on the trails, or we'll blow you up!"

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Closer to home

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Matagorda Island, a former Air Force bombing and gunnery range (19411945), contains unexploded ordnance (UXO), including bombs, rockets, and small arms ammunition.

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Rita Blanca National Grasslands, along the Texas/Oklahoma/New Mexico borders was used for aerial gunnery during WWII (Dalhart Army Air Field) The District conservationist (Aggie) who worked up there showed me a .50 cal casing he found there.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2026-05-13/wiesbaden-bomb-clay-kaserne-21657143.html

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A World War II bomb discovered near a U.S. Army installation in western Germany forced evacuations, road closures and access restrictions Wednesday, underscoring the lingering dangers of unexploded ordnance in Europe more than 80 years after the war. The American aerial bomb, weighing over 1,000 pounds, was found Tuesday during road construction work near Clay Kaserne in the Erbenheim district of Wiesbaden, the city said in a statement. The bomb was discovered near Luftbrckenstrasse, the road that leads to Clay Kaserne's main gate.

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