Specialist explosives experts have carried out a controlled detonation on a hand grenade found in a garden in Derbyshire.
Police were called to the address on Sunday afternoon after a member of the public found the device.
Officers called in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit to investigate and the surrounding roads were closed as a precaution.
The device, in a garden on Woodville Road, was found to viable, police have confirmed, and it was destroyed in an explosion.
Road closures in the Hartshorne area near Swadlincote have since been lifted.
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