Reports of an 'unexploded wartime device' sparked an emergency response with bomb squads racing to the scene on a busy Scots road.
Officers were called to the A8 in Shawhead, Coatbridge, after the alarm was raised at around 2.45pm on Monday, January 24.
Cops closed off the on and off ramp from the A725 to the A8 as diversions were put in place.