An 82-year-old woman found a decades-old unexploded ordinance in her home Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The ordnance, which police said had been rusted over, was a little more than a foot long and resembled a World War II-era artillery shell.

It was taken away without incident by two bomb technicians from the Bergen County Police Department, police said.

“We were cleaning out the cellar,” said the woman, Alice Smyser. “We came across this thing and didn’t know what it was.”

Smyser said that she’s lived in the Prospect Street home for more than 50 years, and that it’s been in her family for even longer, since 1923.

“My cellar has been very, very full of things,” she said. “It’s an accumulation of a lot.”

 

Source: NorthJersey.com