Charlotte Hobson

Join us to hunt down pirate gold! In 1695, Avery, a West Country man, carried out ‘one of the most successful crimes ever committed’, seizing a shipful of gold ingots and pieces of eight. He was never caught, but was thought to have returned secretly to Cornwall.

Philip Marsden’s new book The Levelling Sea gives tantalising details of a hand-written map leading to ‘three chests of treasure belonging to Avery the Pirate’… Led by author and journalist Charlotte Hobson - Philip’s wife, this family treasure hunt draws on these and other swashbuckling tales for a fun and fascinating adventure around Port Eliot. What’s more, if you manage to solve the puzzle of Avery’s map, it may even lead to buried treasure…