Is this an explosive

[Kneerly Down]

At the house in Coventry I've unearthed this while pulling up ivy along the fenceline.
Roughly 6in across.

Is it explosive...I ask mainly because of Coventry's rep in WW2.

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[gremlin]

Not sure why you've posted it in 'Current Affairs, Politics, News', though if it goes bang, I'm sure it will make the news....

have you tried 'itting it wiv an 'ammer?

[Mussels]

Lob it over the fence and claim on your neighbour's insurance if anything happens.

[Horse]

Google lens leads to ...

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[1913]

What does the underneath look like.

[Mr. Dazzle]

[KungFooBob]

It's a cake tin, I bet the crimbo cake inside has matured nicely.

[DEADPOOL]

It's a "drop". End of a bit of bar that's been machined off and chucked away. Probably off a big 'dozer or some giant Northern machine.

In other words, a solid lump of mild steel. Try hitting it with a hammer to see if it explodes.

[Yambo]

So many questions - because so little information.

Size, weight, any screw fittings in the side or bottom (an explosive device would need a fuse fitting which would usually be screwed in)?

I think DP is probably right unless it's just the weight of a cake tin and mouldy cake.

[Dodgy69]

I wonder how many are in the area. ???

[irie]

At the house in Coventry I've unearthed this while pulling up ivy along the fenceline.
Roughly 6in across.

Is it explosive...I ask mainly because of Coventry's rep in WW2.

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Because it's sitting on fresh leaves you must have lifted it and put it there, so is it heavy, and what does it look like underneath?

[Kneerly Down]

In other words, a solid lump of mild steel. Try hitting it with a hammer to see if it explodes.

Neighbour kicked it and nothing happened. Does seem to be just a solid lump of steel as you reckoned.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It doesn't look like a device containing an explosive substance, it looks like a lump of mild steel, if you grind it up into filings and find a way to make it burn fast enough it would be classed as an explosive, I can't remember whether iron filings are an explosive, but coal dust is.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Neighbour kicked it and nothing happened. Does seem to be just a solid lump of steel as you reckoned.

Getting other people to volunteer for shit you don't want to do is a much undervalued skill

[demographic]

It doesn't look like a device containing an explosive substance, it looks like a lump of mild steel, if you grind it up into filings and find a way to make it burn fast enough it would be classed as an explosive, I can't remember whether iron filings are an explosive, but coal dust is.

Iron filings (or more specifally, rust) mixed with aluminium powder is basically Thermite.
Not exactly an explosive, more of an incendiary.

[KungFooBob]

Custard powder is an explosive, in fact any fine powder is... in the right (wrong) conditions.

[Yorick]

Custard powder is an explosive, in fact any fine powder is... in the right (wrong) conditions.

Is my custard in a tin safe?

[demographic]

Custard powder is an explosive, in fact any fine powder is... in the right (wrong) conditions.

Aye, sort of but its more combustion than detonation.
An initiator in flour can demolish buildings.

[demographic]

Custard powder is an explosive, in fact any fine powder is... in the right (wrong) conditions.

Is my custard in a tin safe?

It's works when its suspended in the air, flour and quite a few other cumbustable dusts present the same danger and even my extractor has an antistatic hose to minimise the risk of a spark igniting the dust a router or saw makes.
More of a risk in drier climates than Cumbria mind.

[Horse]

burn fast enough it would be classed as an explosive.

'Deflagrate'?

It's one of those words; heard once, stuck in my head.