How are WW1 or WW2 era bombs still regularly found in gardens and houses around UK and Europe?

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The day after or week after these were dropped 60-100 years ago, did people not think, there’s a bomb over there we should make it safe.

Edit: I singled out the UK because they discovered a bomb from World War Two today in Plymouth. I know the UK is still in Europe.

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Archaeologist working in Belgium here!

our company recently found unexploded ordenance in while working on a site.

essentially, geology made a lot of them dissapear under fields, rain, mud, erosion… filled up the impact sites and after a while farmers forgot the bombs were under these locations and started ploughing. or it just sits there after impact and gets buried next to a house or a new one is built close-by

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