Bomb
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1941
Materials
Metal
Measurements
155 mm (Diameter)40 mm (D)
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303761
Summary
One of two parts of a bomb which fell near the Brick Bridge in Tatton Park on 2nd July 1941. One with indistinct label which indicated that the bomb went to a depth of 15ft in clay. One stamped 556 the other 70D and 434. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.