Materials dumped 1945-1976

An estimated one million tonnes of non-chemical ammunitions, bombs, rockets and shells

An estimated one million tonnes of non-chemical ammunitions, bombs, rockets and shells

1948 - 14,000 tonnes of rockets with phosgene poison gas warheads

1950 - 1960 up to two tonnes of low-level radio active waste

1981 - "small quantities of concrete waste", according to the British government

"Part or all of a 2,500 ton consignment of nuclear waste," according to environmentalists.

Dump may also have been used before the second World War, but all the records have been destroyed.

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