Brean beach — suspected ordnance
25 August 2025 · Burnham & Brean, Somerset
View this record on the map →- Date
- 25 August 2025
- Record type
- Found UXO
- Location
- Burnham & Brean, Somerset
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
On Bank Holiday Monday a metal-detector user found a cylinder-shaped object on Brean beach behind the Seagull pub. Coastguards and police cordoned off the area and a bomb disposal team attended.
How it was made safe
Assessed by a bomb disposal team and declared harmless.
Also worth knowing
Recorded as a documented response rather than a confirmed munition — the object was ultimately assessed as safe. Not every cordon ends in a detonation, and the ones that do not are part of the picture too.