Any ideas what this is? Moray Firth wind developer to clear bombs after almost 20 found at site - News for the Oil and Gas Sector Possibly a seamine?
Not sure that Teller mines would find their way to the UK, but Britain also produces Anti Tank mines similar to the Teller. Perhaps they were part of the UK coastal defences. Regards Tom
I can't find any records of what British mines were similar to this. If it's German, no idea how it got there (I know munitions were dumped off of Aberdeen) but still doesn;t explain how if it is german it got here. The article and photo are unrelated, the image is photostock and unrelated to the Windfarm finds.
PS the picture in the article is from photostock, nothing to do with windfarm muntions the article writes about
How would we know that it was a stock photo? You asked what it could be and got answers. Give them a call then to ask what it was save us wasting our crystal ball magic
I asked Energyvoice (the website) for more details on what the object was. They didn't know and the editor said it used the image from the Royal Navy on an unexploded bomb. Forgetting the article, I wanted to know what the object was in the photo as I do not recognise it.
The Teller mine was so named due to its shape looking like a dinner plate. There are many photos of them on line sometimes in heaps having been disarmed by RE's. They all seem to have a carrying handle. Photos taken in Florence 1944 show them with augmenting charges which look a bit like an ammo box. They seemed to like placing them near gate posts presumably to only trigger when wide vehicles like a tank went through. The Teller Mine is primarily an anti tank mine it required a 200lb or 91kg load to trigger it. An empty Jeep weighs 1,113 kg The Germans had a habit of placing a “nest” of mines either two or three Teller Mines or one mine with accompanying explosives. They added a strengthening torsion bar on the actuator cut part way through to prevent a light vehicle setting it off. A single mine would blow off a tanks tracks and injure the driver but the tank was then effectively a static pill box. A nest would frequently blow a Sherman Tank over killing or injuring the crew and blocking the road. After several light vehicles passing over it the torsion bar could shear. I am partly convinced that this is what killed the men in the 67th Field Regt Survey Jeep as it was following the Recce Jeep down a narrow lane which had been used extensively the week before by the 2nd North Staffs and the 67th FR 446 Bty FOO team during heavy fighting using Universal Carriers. The Recce Team seem to have been going through a gateway to what is now a park between Villa Pietra and Villa Ripoli. The Recce Jeep must have either missed it or driven over it but it didn't detonate. The survey Jeep was not so lucky. The Jeep was reported to have been blown completely over a 6ft wall (or what was left of it). The following next two days were spent organising training for senior NCO's in Mine Detection and clearance. One sergeant later found 25 mines on his Battery location. Disclaimer: not being an RE I am not an expert and this might be a copy of a German Teller mine as it is a domed shape more like a bowl than a plate.
