Zoom talk on undersea Bronze Age discoveries off South Devon. A Harberton and Harbertonford History Society event
n 1995 a team of amateur divers working in the Erme Estuary in South Devon moved their operation to the waters off Salcombe due to bad weather. Little did they know that weekend, their lives were about to be changed. Work has continued on what the British Museum has described as the most important maritime discovery of the Bronze Age period in the world.
The finds displayed in three cabinets at the British Museum and show cases at Plymouth Art Gallery and Exeter Museum.
The talk covers four shipwrecks from different time periods in one area of the seabed.
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Ron Howell is the secretary of the South West Maritime Archaeological Group. Ron has been diving for over fifty years after leaving the Royal Navy and is the man responsible for the amazing discoveries after breaking the surface on that day in 1995 with his hands clutching gold coins, nuggets and jewellery in his gloves, the rest is history.
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