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A copper-alloy crucified Christ (Corpus Christi) from the Mullion Pin Wreck (1667), off Cornwall, England

I discovered this figure in 2019 while diving on the Mullion ‘Pin Wreck’, a mid-17th century merchantman off Cornwall so-named for the abundance of brass clothing pins found at the site. The wreck is almost certainly the Santo Christo de Castello, a Genoese-owned ship built in Amsterdam in 1666 and wrecked on her maiden voyage the following year from Holland via London towards Iberia …

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