A holiday beach was cordoned when more than a dozen controlled explosions carried out after a landslip sent more than 1,000 bombs and rockets embedded in the cliffs for more 60 years tumbling onto the sands.
The East Riding beach of Mappleton, near Hornsea, was used as a practice bombing range during the Second World War - bad weather has led to ground movement which exposed one of the biggest arsenals ever uncovered.
A dog walker stumbled across the deadly find on an afternoon walk.
A bomb disposal team has been called in to an East Yorkshire coastal landslip that revealed hundreds of Second World War munitions
The weapons, including rockets, mortars and 25lb (11kg) shells, could take days to clear
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