The Last Haul, Barmouth

Walking around Barmouth we came across this. Which may be one of my oddest finds in a while.

It seems that a ship sank off the coast here around 1790. The ship was possibly The Bronze Bell. It was full of valuable stuff like coins and Carrera marble, and lots of cannon.

It was discovered in 1978 by archeological scuba divers. More on that that.. One of the things that they hauled up was this huge hunk of marble. Marble is soft enough for molusks to make holes in, as seen in the second photo.

Sculptor Frank Cocksey did this beautiful work exposing the beautiful white marble inside the big piece of stone. You can read more at this site.

Looking for information about the sculpture, like why did it get moved across the road two years ago, and why does it not show on google maps? There is a lot of bad internet information, and a couple of interesting clues for me to hunt down tomorrow.

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