Tuesday 21 April 2020

Coastal erosion reveals 'shipwreck' skeletons on Glamorgan Heritage Coast

Archaeologists had to use safety ropes to carry out the excavations 
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

Skeletal remains of at least six people, thought to be shipwreck victims from hundreds of years ago, have been revealed by coastal erosion.

Experts have recovered some of their bones from a cliff edge at Cwm Nash on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast.

Other bones have already been lost to the sea, according to Prof Jacqui Mulville from Cardiff University.

The remains of people recovered from the site previously have been found to date from the 16th Century.

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