A FARM worker, Mr RW Jones, of Southcrest Lodge, Headless Cross, was nearly at the end of his afternoon's job of hedging in a field at Woodrow Farm, Studley Road, Redditch, when his bill hook struck something hard and metallic.
He cleared away the undergrowth and saw in the growing dusk what appeared to be an unexploded bomb.
He told his employer, Mr D C Quinney, who informed the police, and it was later declared that it was, in fact, a bomb.
Mr Jones told a reporter that he had nearly completed his job when he discovered the bomb.
" I just cut round it and carried on working", he said.
"I had nearly finished the field anyhow."
Mr Jones added that he had worked on the farm for 10 years and could not remember any bomb being actually dropped, but said that in one of the neighbouring fields there was a bomb crater, and it was probable that the bomb was one of a "stick" dropped during the war.
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