Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Circles & monuments
Ancient monument

The Moor Sand Wreck

Salcombe, Devon

Bronze Age swords on the sea bed, perhaps from a sunken boat.

In 1977 trainee divers off Moor Sand, near Salcombe, found Bronze Age swords and axe heads on the sea bed. It may be the cargo of a prehistoric boat that sank on its way across the Channel.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open The Moor Sand Wreck on the mapReport a sighting here
When
Middle Bronze Age
Where
50.2100, -3.7500
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

View the bay from the coast path near Gammon Head.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries