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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Athena Stavrou & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Skeleton of sailor who died in shipwreck 200 years ago washes up on British beach

A skeleton understood to be of a 200-year-old suspected shipwreck victim have been found washed up on a beach in Cornwall.

The remains of a human thought to be from an early 18th century sailor, were discovered on a footpath on the north Cornish coast.

The bones were found earlier this month by a member of the public near Trevone, Cornwall, overlooking Newtrain Bay.

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