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  • Cornish beauty spot 'possible mass grave' site

    09/13/2015 1:11:58 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    BBC ^ | September, 11 2015 | unattributed
    A possible mass grave of more than 200 sailors has been discovered at a Cornish beauty spot. The National Trust will excavate the site near Lizard Point after geophysical surveys revealed a "mass burial pit". HMS Royal Anne crashed on to rocks and sank off Lizard Point in 1721 with the loss of 207 sailors. A three-year study has found it appears the washed-up bodies were buried on land at Pistil Meadow. 'Skeletal material' National Trust archaeologist Jim Parry said the geophysical survey results "seem to be showing a very large mass burial pit". He said the excavation, to be...