The team de-activated the bomb and were said to have been impressed with the way it was constructed. It has now been sent to Kent where home office experts are carrying out tests. The bomb is believed to have been placed on the wall between 6.50pm on Saturday and 6am on Sunday when the gamekeeper had made his evening and morning tour of the field's perimeter. Although police say they are unable to link the bomb with any organisation they are pursuing a number of lines of inquiry, including connections with hunt saboteurs. Blades Master Fox Hunting Association director Alastair Jackson said activists would go to extraordinary lengths.
People also get things sent in the post including envelopes with razor blades stuck inside.
But taking precautions against anything like a bomb would be almost impossible. The device was discovered by a gamekeeper about 100 yards up a track beside a disused railway line on Sunday morning, just outside the hamlet of Syreford, near Andoversford. Home Office specialists in Kent are examining the device's make-up. Copeland was convicted of murder after he planted nail bombs in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho. Meanwhile a spokeswoman for the Hunt Saboteur Association denied it had any association with the device.