Pink Floyd may have asked “Mother do you think they’ll drop the bomb?” on 1980’s The Wall, but even Floyd’s guitar virtuoso David Gilmour couldn’t have predicted they’d bury it instead.

Classc Rock reports that Gilmour, along with his wife Polly, were forced to evacuate their East Sussex home after an unexploded World War II bomb was unearthed during an extensive renovation to their property.

Builders were working around the guitarist’s six-storey mansion when they discovered a 150cm pipe-shaped device buried underground. Alerting Gilmour and his wife, the entire was forced to evacuate and a Navy bomb disposal team called in to identify and safely diffuse the explosive.

Identified as a German incendiary bomb, known as a napalm or firebomb, the World War II-era device was removed safely with no-one injured.

Gilmour’s partner, Polly Samson, a writer and lyricist – took to twitter to provide an entertaining narrative to the events.

First posting that she thought they’d simply discovered a piece of old piping, before tweeting this picture:

Later, Samson provided an image of the explosive in question:

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