AN EXPLOSIVE device found buried in the silt beneath Sefton Park lake on Sunday night has been identified by army bomb experts as a British mortar.
The two-inch expended smoke mortar was discovered after the multi- million pounds regeneration of the park required the lake to be drained.
The munition, believed to have been produced between 1945 and 1975, was taken away by soldiers from the Chester-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal team.
It is not know how the device came to be in the lake as the Ministry of Defence have no record of the area being used to test weapons.
Liverpool Blitz expert and former councillor John Livingstone, said: “It may have been the Home Guard practising, or someone brought it home from war and decided to dispose of it somewhere safe.”
