Divers have rediscovered a 17th century shipwreck off Gunwalloe Church Cove in Cornwall, at exactly the spot where the shipwreck scene was filmed in 2014 for the TV series Poldark.

First seen by a local diver in 1971 and designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, the wreck of the Schiedam had been buried for many years under the shifting sands of the cove.

The site is now managed by Historic England and dived by a keen local team.

The two divers who rediscovered the site this year were novelist and archaeologist David Gibbins and Mark Milburn, of Atlantic Scuba in Penryn.

At the time of her loss in April 1684 Schiedam was part of a fleet carrying ordnance, tools, horses and people back from Tangier, the port in present-day Morocco that had been acquired by the English King Charles II as a dowry with his Portuguese wife, but had been abandoned by the English in the face of Moorish threat.