In August 2025, 7-year-old Arthur was exploring Lizard Point in Cornwall, the most southerly point of mainland Britain, when he discovered a collection of teeth in the ground. He showed them to Ken Wallace, a Wildlife Watchpoint volunteer who happened to be a retired dentist, and Wallace recognised them as human. After a short police inquiry confirmed that the discovery was archaeological rather than a modern case, the find was passed to National Trust archaeologist Jim Parry for investigation. What followed turned a chance discovery by a child into an archaeological excavation of a previously unconfirmed burial site. Parry found further teeth, fragments of jawbone and part of a skull, while erosion continued to expose more remains from the coastal mound. Initial suspicions that at least one burial might be prehistoric soon gave way to a much more complicated picture. Radiocarbon dating has since placed some of the remains in the early 1720s, raising the possibility that the site could be connected to one of Cornwall's most notorious maritime disasters.
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