Shipwrecked sailor found after 200yrs

A SKELETON found on a cliff in Cornwall is thought to have been a sailor shipwrecked and washed up more than 200 years ago.

The bones emerged due to erosion on a footpath near Trevone, overlooking Newtrain Bay, and were found earlier this month.

After police determined the remains were historic, the Cornwall Archeological Unit removed them.

Ann Reynolds, of Cornwall council, said the bones were near the “notoriously dangerous” Padstow Harbour approach, so may be those of a shipwrecked sailor.

She said before 1808, when the Grylls Act decreed washed-up remains be buried in consecrated ground, they were “buried unceremoniously in the nearest cliff ”.

EXCAVATION At the cliff