Meanwhile in Delaware, more clamshells, more vintage ordnance:
More vintage explosives have been recovered in a pile of clamshells being used to pave a driveway, state police said Tuesday.
A Laurel area man called police Friday after he noticed a grenade among the clamshells he recently poured in his driveway.
State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham said ordnance disposal teams were sent to a farm in the 32000 block of Gordy Road, one mile south of Laurel, and recovered a World War I French rifle grenade, a British Mills hand grenade and a 30 mm anti-aircraft projectile from the man's driveway.
Oldham said ordnance unit members checked the surrounding area with a metal detector and also discovered two additional French rifle grenades, and a shattered British Mills hand grenade.
The explosives were turned over to Dover Air Force Base for analysis and destruction, Oldham said.
The latest find is the third instance in two months of explosives turning up in clamshells downstate.
In February, a Bridgeville man found 32 live hand grenades mixed among several loads of clamshells he had delivered in November.
A week ago, a World War II pineapple-style Mark II hand grenade and a World War I French rifle grenade were found on a clamshell-paved service road between Port Delmarva and Rehoboth Bay mobile-home communities.
State police have said the grenades are mixed in with clamshells dug from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, where much military ordnance from that era was disposed.
Police are cautioning anyone who finds the explosives to call 911 because they still may be capable of exploding.
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