IT’S not quite the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but it could give you a nasty shock.

A group of conservation volunteers cleaning out a New Forest pond found what could be all that remains of the Dalek invasion of Earth.

Clad in waders, the group had already fished out an old table football game, dozens of lager cans and even a muddy skateboard.

Sales executive Marc Oakland, 42, was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he made the discovery.

He said: “I’d just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I got the shock of my life – a Dalek head bobbed up right in front of me.

“It must have been down there for some time because it was covered in mould and water weed, and had quite a bit of damage.

“One of the dome lights was smashed, but the eye-stalk was intact and the head and neck stayed in one piece as I carefully lifted it out.”

Pond warden Tony Brown, 70, was leading the volunteer squad clearing dumped rubbish from the pond, near Beaulieu.

He said: “We made a very thorough search of the rest of the bottom of the pond and there were definitely no alien remnants lurking.”

Mr Brown, who has been helping clear out the pond for the past eight years, added: “After doing some research, we discovered the BBC often took the Daleks out on location for filming, and they travelled to Hampshire on at least one occasion in the 1980s, when Colin Baker played the Time Lord.

“Jon Pertwee also made a few Doctor Who episodes in the county during the 1970s.

“Who knows? This might be the remains of one of the originals from the old TV series.

“ I’m told they were built to last.”