BOMB disposal experts tonight detonated an unexploded bomb on Otmoor.
The 250lb device, dating back to the Second World War, was discovered shortly before midday on Wednesday.
Police and the Ministry of Defence cordoned off a one-mile exclusion zone around the MoD-owned land between Beckley and Charlton-on-Otmoor.
They also worked to get an air exclusion zone because of the size of the device.
The bomb was finally detonated by the 33 Engineer Regiment from Cambridgeshire shortly after 6pm.
The Royal Air Force used to use part of Otmoor as a firing range from the 1920s until the late 1950s.
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