Sites
The Salcombe Cannon Site
Since 1995 the Salcombe Cannon Site site has yielded the largest assemblage of 17C Moroccan gold in Northern Europe together with other artefcts of Moroccan, Dutch, English, and other European origin.
From 2004 onwards, SWMAG have recovered a number of axe heads, blades, tin and copper ingots, and gold work dating from the Penard period of the Bronze Age (1300–1150 BC) — the same period as artefacts found on the nearby Moor Sand site.
Moor Sand
Following the find of a Bronze Age sword in 1977, the seabed was surveyed in 1978, 1979, and 1982. During these surveys a number of further Bronze Age artefacts were found.
The trail of Bronze Age artefacts from the Salcombe Cannon site lead towards Moor Sand, and in 2009 finds confirmed that the archeaology spread across the two sites.
The Lord Napier
Found by SWMAG in 2007, 96 years after her sinking, the story of The Lord Napier, her crew, and their families is a fascinating social history of the boats and people involved in fishing and trade on the UK south coast in the late 19C and early 20C.