Stash of 100 hand grenades found in Mansfield woods

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https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/police-statement-100-hand-grenades-5477215

Pretty alarming headline and there's not much detail to it but I can't imagine they are historical ones that have been discarded, who has 100 hand grenades?

Hopefully they are inert training ones that have been dumped, otherwise the mind boggles as to what reason there would be to stash a 100 grenades in a wood.

I'm also unsure how that isn't national news.
 
Article doesn't say how old they were. From the stories my grandad told me from when he was in the home guard they could be from the second world war.
 
peterwalkley said:
Article doesn't say how old they were. From the stories my grandad told me from when he was in the home guard they could be from the second world war.
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Really, would be pretty incredible to think they'd been buried for the best part of 80years
 
dLockers said:
What's your theory?
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I'm not really sure I have one to be honest, when I say incredible I don't mean unbelievable, I simply mean it's surprising that they weren't on a UXO map (we have them for a lot of WW2 bomb drops etc) and or not been discovered before.

I guess there's always a chance, albeit small that it's something more serious.
 
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Really, would be pretty incredible to think they'd been buried for the best part of 80years
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WW2 explosives of various types are still lying around in various places. It's usually not a load of hand grenades (it's usually individual bombs), but I wouldn't say it's "pretty incredible". There were an awful lot of hand grenades made during WW2. 100 would have been a trivial amount, something that could possibly have been left and forgotten about.

Parts of France are still no go areas due to munitions from the first world war let alone the second - Zone Rouge. They've been working on clearing it ever since (apart from during WW2), but it will take centuries.
 
Just LOL if you don't skip and entirely ignore the actual story and go straight to the local comments from local people because they are always amazing in their obtuseness and ability to miss all of the points.

Noobs.
 
If it was a random old crate of rusted up WW2 ones wouldn't they have said?
There's been lots of grenade attacks in Sweden reported over the past few years - maybe the organised criminal gangs responsible have expanded their trade to the UK.
 
IIRC there were quite a few ammo dumps sprinkled around the country ready for a nasty little resistance war if GB got invaded in 1940. A 100 hand grenades seems quite random though.
 
Uther said:
IIRC there were quite a few ammo dumps sprinkled around the country ready for a nasty little resistance war if GB got invaded in 1940. A 100 hand grenades seems quite random though.
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Indeed. Most likely a WW2 ammo cache for the local Auxiliary Unit. Basically guerilla warfare teams intended to make things very unpleasant for the German occupiers and anyone assisting them.

100 is an odd number as the British Army issued grenades in wooden crates of 12.
 
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