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Excavation at Iron Age cemetery, Harlyn Bay, St Merryn, Cornwall. 1977
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Excavation at Iron Age cemetery, Harlyn Bay, St Merryn, Cornwall. 1977
View of a trench behind the old museum at Harlyn Bay. The Iron Age cemetery in Harlyn Bay was excavated between 1900 and 1906. When digging foundations for a new house to be built, Mr Reddie Mallett had made an important archaeological discovery by finding a cist containing human remains. Excavations over the next 6 years found Harlyn Bay to be the largest Iron Age burial site in Cornwall. Bronze Age barrows had been discovered in 1864, on the west side of the bay, near the cliff edge, by a labourer digging a pond on land owned by Mr Hellyar. The museum was closed in the 1970s and most of the artefacts transferred to the Royal Cornwall Museum. Photographer: Charles Woolf
TRURI : AMERm.1b
Media ID 19584187
© RIC, photographer Charles Woolf
Archaeology Greenham History Joyce
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