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Culver Hole

Port Eynon, Gower

A mysterious walled-up cave in the cliffs, said to be a smugglers' store.

Culver Hole is a sea cave near Port Eynon that has been sealed with a huge stone wall with windows, rising high up the cliff. Nobody knows exactly who built it or why.

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When
Uncertain
Where
51.5400, -4.2100
Group
Pirates

Visiting

Reached at low tide from Port Eynon. Check the tides carefully.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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