PillBlogs: And then there were 10...

Having been laid up following an unplanned (but brief) period in hospital, I finally managed to get out into the country again and uncovered pieces from another two hand grenades.

Heavy rain means for me mostly two things:

1. If I go out in it, I'll get wet

2. Lots of interesting things appear in the landscape

With regard to the latter, I have a list of various sites that I monitor after heavy rainfall and one of them came up trumps; this is the layby that I've been pulling fragments of Mills Bomb out of on a regular basis for the last 18 months.

As I reported some months ago I have components from at least eight individual grenades, but this was increased to at least ten with the all-too familiar scene as seen at right.

The photograph below shows the haul: one "hemisphere" of body, one lower body section (these are from two different bombs) with fuse tube, a solitary fuse tube (dated 1943), a very rusty striker and a detonator cap. This brings the total number of fuse tubes to ten, obviously indicating at least ten grenades so far.

I always get excited when something like this crops up underfoot and I never get bored of finding all these pieces although I expect you're probably bored of reading about it...

- Pete

Hibbs, Peter PillBlogs: And then there were 10... (2010) Available at: http://www.pillbox.org.uk/pillblogs/detail.asp?ID=274 Accessed: 08 September 2010