Cornish Fish Cellars
In their annual migration from the warm waters of the North Atlantic, the pilchard shoals rarely travelled further east than the coasts of Cornwall and southwest Devon. Here they were caught in vast numbers and preserved, for export or use, in fish cellars which lay along the coast. The Cornish fish...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0003598x00018263 2024-03-03T08:47:02+00:00 Cornish Fish Cellars Pounds, N. J. G. 1944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00018263 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00018263 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Antiquity volume 18, issue 69, page 36-41 ISSN 0003-598X 1745-1744 General Arts and Humanities Archeology journal-article 1944 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00018263 2024-02-08T08:36:03Z In their annual migration from the warm waters of the North Atlantic, the pilchard shoals rarely travelled further east than the coasts of Cornwall and southwest Devon. Here they were caught in vast numbers and preserved, for export or use, in fish cellars which lay along the coast. The Cornish fish cellar was a building of highly specialized type, in which the pilchards were salted and pressed. With the gradual disappearance of the pilchard fishery during the nineteenth century the cellars were first abandoned, and then became ruinous or were converted to other uses. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press Cornish ENVELOPE(163.083,163.083,-66.717,-66.717) Cornwall ENVELOPE(-59.688,-59.688,-62.366,-62.366) Antiquity 18 69 36 41 |
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In their annual migration from the warm waters of the North Atlantic, the pilchard shoals rarely travelled further east than the coasts of Cornwall and southwest Devon. Here they were caught in vast numbers and preserved, for export or use, in fish cellars which lay along the coast. The Cornish fish cellar was a building of highly specialized type, in which the pilchards were salted and pressed. With the gradual disappearance of the pilchard fishery during the nineteenth century the cellars were first abandoned, and then became ruinous or were converted to other uses. |
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