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20 to 40 times more than we were doing before. And obviously the more you dig, the more you find, said agency archaeologist Sam De Decker.
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Dewilde cache includes a satchel with spoon, fork and pipe, countless bullets, a can of canadian goose jacket British Confectionery as well as two bombs and a hand grenade.
Fatalities are rare but not exceptional. Experts says that about a quarter of all shells fired buy canada goose jacket from both sides failed to go off. In March this year, though, two workers were killed by a bomb that exploded after being removed from a construction site in Ypres.
According to local historian John Desreumaux, 358 people have been killed and 535 cheap canada goose uk injured in a total of 599 explosions in the Ypres area since World canada goose black friday sale War One end in 1918.
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canada goose black friday sale The Belgian army bomb disposal squad says it is called canada goose uk outlet out about 3,000 times a year to defuse, unearth or simply collect live shells and other explosives from World War One and Two, the vast majority of it from the first war in the canada goose coats on sale area around Ypres. canada goose black friday sale
That around 150 tonnes per year of potentially lethal shells and grenades.
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