Cornish Fish Cellars

• Published in: Antiquity
• Main Author: Pounds, N. J. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1944
• Subjects: General Arts and Humanities; Archeology; Cornish; Cornwall; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00018263; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0003598X00018263

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...