1 published discovery from Pitcairn Islands — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Pitcairn Islands, a famous historical find. It is filed under artefacts. It is the HMS Bounty relics, built 1784, burned in January 1790.
The law: In Pitcairn Islands, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
The mutineers burned HMS Bounty off Pitcairn Island in January 1790. In 1933 Parkin Christian, a descendant of Fletcher Christian, raised her rudder from Bounty Bay. It led Luis Marden of National Geographic to the wreck in 1957, and an anchor and a cannon followed.
