Councillors have complained to police following the detonation of a Second World War bomb found in a Curry Rivel garden.
Members of Curry Rivel Parish Council said not enough people were warned before the controlled explosion of the device.
But Jo Conway, who found the bomb when digging in his garden on Stoneyhurst Drive, said he thought police had handled the situation well.
Clerk Jenny Ludgate said councillors agreed to complain after hearing that many residents did not know about the detonation of the bomb at Red Hill until after it happened.
They were also concerned that the farmer of the land at Red Hill was not informed and some cattle had been startled.
Speaking at a council meeting last week, Ms Ludgate said: "Many people living adjacent to the area were not warned or advised about closing windows and councillors felt more could have been done to inform people."
She read out a letter of response to their complaint from Sergeant Rob Jameson, of Somerton Police Station.
He said officers had relied on the bomb disposal unit's expertise and residents likely to have been affected were warned to stay indoors.
Mr Conway, of CKD and Son Construction, found the bomb when he was digging with a pickaxe while working on an extension in his garden.
He said: "We were digging holes and putting posts in when I came across this object. I thought it was just a piece of metal at first, but I got right down nose to metal to look at it and I said to my colleague that I thought it was a bomb.
"It was quite funny actually, it was like a comedy sketch – he went down on his knees and looked at it and said 'I think you're right, I think it's a bomb', and we looked at each other and we just ran. I phoned the police and the bomb squad came down from Salisbury – I had hit it a few times with my pickaxe and they said if I had hit the tip of it, it could have been a different story."
Mr Conway said the disposal squad believed the device to be a Second World War bomb that was most likely thrown off a plane to lose weight before it landed at a former base in Ilton.
He said they identified Red Hill as the nearest safe open space to detonate the bomb.
A hole was then dug in the centre of the field where the bomb was placed and wired up to a van on the road.
His daughter Daniella, 12, then got to press the detonation button and let off the bomb.
Mr Conway said: "There was one hell of a bang. My daughter was off school for a teacher training day and she was glad she didn't miss any of it.
"Personally I thought the bomb squad and the police were brilliant. They went round and knocked on all the doors of the houses nearby, but a lot of people weren't in at the time. Red Hill was the closest open space for them to let it off.
"It might have caused some damage to the field, but a field can be repaired – you wouldn't be able to replace a human life if it had gone off on the way to somewhere else."
Ms Ludgate said the farmer had also lodged a complaint with the National Farmers' Union.
