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Bomb squad experts were called to a canal over fears magnet fishers caught a 160 year-old grenade.
The puzzling find was made by members of a magnet fishing group on the Bridgewater Canal in Sale, Trafford, at the weekend, sparking a police alert. Enthusiast Alastair Rogers - part of a regional magnet fishing group - pulled the object up from the water then wrapped it up in a towel and placed it behind a tree.
It was photographed and the images were sent to a military historian, who said he believed the metal lump could have been part of a Ketchum hand grenade, which were predominantly used in the American civil war and first patented there in 1861. Police were alerted and the towpath area around Raglan Road, near Trafford Rowing Club, was cordoned off at around 4.30pm on Sunday.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts attended the scene, but police said that after a thorough examination, it was deemed not to be a viable grenade. The object was then taken away by the EOD teams for disposal.
Hobbyist Alastair, 47 and from North Wales, formed the 'Welsh Dragon Magnets' group with his two daughters Mollie, eight, and Charlotte, 11. As part of the North West Magnet Fishers group, they tour canals and waterways across the region at weekends in a fun hunt for sunken treasure.
Alastair said: "When the police came the EOD were on their way and said it was okay for us to leave, so we never really got to the bottom of what it actually was. The police did not get back to us. It was always going to be a suspect item - it's just one of those. You never really know what you are going to find.
"We have got a huge magnet, about the size of two tins of tuna. We pulled the rope up and it was just hanging on the edge of the magnet.
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