The Orange County Sheriff's Office says a live hand grenade was found on an estate in the Town of Hamptonburgh on Thursday.

The sheriff's office says it got a call around 4 p.m. of a potential hand grenade found by a contractor working at 172 Stony Ford Road. 

They were advised by a contractor working on the estate that he located a container holding what appeared to be an undetonated hand grenade. 

Officials contacted the Bomb Disposal Unit, which handed the device as a live MK2 hand grenade. 

The BDU technicians rendered the device safe and removed it from the estate. 
It was placed into evidence for destruction at a later date by the unit.