A field in Guernsey is to be surveyed later after suspicions were raised there could be undetonated World War Two bombs lurking deep beneath the surface.
Invaded in June 1940, the Channel Islands were the only British territories to be occupied by the Germans during the war.
A contractor will be inspecting fields next to Route Isabelle, in St Peter Port, in the east of the island, after islanders raised concerns a previous survey had not looked deep enough for bombs.
Wartime flight paths and military records point to unexploded ordnance potentially lying beneath the field, said bomb disposal expert Ben Remfrey, who ramped up pressure on the issue in October last year.
The former soldier said the most likely reason he believed there were bombs in the Foulon Farm area because of an event on 3 March 1941, when the RAF sent squadrons from airfields in the south of England to bomb the French port of Brest, which was in German hands.
"The target was the German battleship, the Admiral Hipper, which was in dry dock," he said.
"It was a cloudy wet night and a number of the bombers could not identify the target and some were damaged by anti-aircraft fire."
