Construction Workers Find World War 2 Era Bomb in Colorado

I am pretty sure that every construction worker who has ever lived has always wanted to unearth something historical. I know I would want to find something amazing if I were digging deep into the dirt. There were times when I was a kid when I hoped I would find a fossil of a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a Triceratops while digging on the side of the house. That never happened. I did, however, find a couple of bottle caps and a few nails that were buried.

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This week, construction workers in Colorado dug up something that shouldn't have ever been in the ground. This item that was unearthed near the 4600 block of South Brothertsdale Way in Aurora, Colorado, could have been potentially dangerous. So much in fact, that the Arapahoe County Bomb Squad was called in to investigate the military ordnance.

Aurora Police contacted the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office and the bomb squad arrived on the scene to x-ray the device. Thankfully, the World War Two era Mark 23 Mod 1 training round that was found in the ground was inert. The location where the construction was taking place used to be the former Lowery Bombing and Gunnery Range, so it is not all that strange that a World War Two-era shell was found in the vicinity.

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According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, Buckley Space Force Base was contacted and the military ordnance was turned over to the agency. Take a look a the photo of the World War Two bomb that was unearthed in Colorado below: