Device1      05/08

An Army bomb disposal team has been called to deal with potentially dangerous Victorian explosives – found in a railway cutting at Corfe Castle in the Isle of Purbeck.

They're thought to be 126 years old – dating from 1884 when railway navvies were constructing a cutting through the chalk rock of the Purbeck Hills.

A member of the railway's track maintenance team discovered the device - it was made safe in a 90 minute operation - hundreds of thousands of trains have run past the spot since the line was built.