Unexploded Ordnance Metal Detector Survey

[Peasgood]

A finger in each ear, eyes squinting and almost shut, walk forward stamping one foot as far in front of you as you can reach.
Often referred to as "Paddy's minesweeper".

[Blackadder43]

The depth these things can be found at would probably need army equipment...
Having said that i would charge them £200 per day and have a few days detecting the site, and then once the digger has removed some earth i would have another day poking around....

Seriously though i'm not sure, there must be an industry standard here somewhere for this type of work..?

[scoobydoo]

Hi DF,
there is a book that was produced in 2009 about this subject by Kevin Stone engineer at Worley Parsons, soley for the construction industry... you may even be able to google it and download..

Hope it helps

Scooby

[stargazer]

I'm pretty sure the experts in this would be the Germans.

We got bombed a bit, but they got really hammered. They used Blitzkrieg but we used saturation bombing tactics and used 4 engine bombers which the Germans didn't.

The Germans dig up WW2 stuff on a regular basis over on their building sites.

Problem would be though that most would be written in German.

[Pops]

Might be worth ringing your local/regional EOD team to see if they can advise/oblige. they may use it as an exercise and then get rid of anything they do find...

[parky844]

have a look here http://www.bactec.com/surveys-unexploded.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

or get Tony robinson to geophys the area

[Verulamium]

Most of these UXB's are a long, long way down. A 500lb iron shelled bomb falling at terminal velocity into earth may put it 30+ feet down. I'd have to up the TX power on my Deus to 3 to detect that!!

Cheers
Alex

[GREGGOWREX]

send LOLLY

[TQ Tim]

Another firm doing UXB surveys here;-
http://www.fes.co.uk/downloads/UXO.pdf
Can't see it being cheap!!

Tim

[Broadsword]

Good one Scoobs - I would also suggest get Portmouth Uni archeology department in to do a Geophys excercise over it first - might be a free option. [plus blowing up a few students in the course of safety for others seems fine]