Walker finds burial casket dating back 3,500 years

A walker stumbled across the remains of what is believed to be a 3,500-year-old tribal chieftain whose burial casket was protruding from a beach in north Cornwall. Trevor Renals, who was walking on Constantine Island, said: "I was actually looking for flint. I found a front tooth and another piece of bone and I looked to see where it had come from." He saw what he took to be a piece of flint jutting out, but found it was a stone casket. Archaeologists carried out an emergency excavation of the site, worried that the remains could be swept away if there was a storm.