uncovered by Hurricane Gert looks likely to take place.

Senior Police officers are meeting with the Marine Section early this week to decide whether a full scale visual inspection of the coastline should be mounted.

And with another incident yesterday of an unidentified object discovered on a beach, following Friday's detonation of a shell on Horseshoe Bay and the finding of a flare on a shore the day before, there are concerns that there will be more sightings.

Pc. Larry Dean, of the Marine Section, said: "A search is being considered, because of the erosion on South Shore there is bound to be quite a few reports.

"A whole lot of sand was washed away, it will blow back but until then there will be these sorts of things.'' Yesterday, Police cordoned off a section of John Smith's Bay after a woman reported seeing an object that looked like a projectile at low tide.

The "bomb'' turned out to be a metal fitting that was concreted on to the shore, close to the former lifeguard station, but had been uncovered after several feet of sand were washed off it.

Police covered it with boulders to prevent further disturbance.

Officers believe the massive shifting of sand from the South Shore last week will have uncovered many other objects, not just ordnance, that could be hazardous to the public.

And as the fine weather returns and more people venture back into the water, then sightings could increase.

A search, conducted from land at low tide, could assist Police in establishing exactly what Gert has exposed.

Police believe the mortar shell found on Horseshoe Bay on Friday was probably washed up from deeper water, where it may have lain covered for years.

But there is a possibility that bombs and other World War One explosives from the wreck of the Pollockshields , situated off Elbow Beach, could also be found.