GRISLY SECRETS REVEALED by coastal erosion on South West Coast Path

If you find yourself walking around the coast of the UK have you ever considered if you are walking over someone’s grave?
In this video we visit Polurrian Cove near Mullion in Cornwall and look for the grave of an unknown mariner who lost his life here, the victim of a shipwreck long ago.
Before 1808 anyone lost at sea, who’s body was washed ashore, was not necessarily given a church burial, and often these poor souls were buried in shallow graves near where their corpse was found. Over time and as a result of coastal erosion more of these graves are being exposed and the authorities have to investigate the finds.
We have found evidence in a number of old books about Cornwall’s heritage with reference to specific wrecks, the loss of life, and where the victims where laid to rest.
Here is an extract from ‘A week at the Lizard’ by CA Johns published in 1848.
‘A narrow winding path leads down to the sands about a third of the way down, in a little natural hollow, sheltered from every wind that blows, a long, narrow, mound points out where rests at length some sea-tossed mariner, all that is known of whose history is, that here his corpse was washed on shore, and here consigned to the grave. Common though the occurrence of burial places is on these cliffs, there is something particularly touching in this lonely grave of the unknown wanderer.’
After watching this video, it might just make you think about what you could be walking over the next time you venture out to explore the Cornish coast path.
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