Sambo's Grave, Sunderland Point

Sambo's Grave and the Horizon Line Chamber at Sunderland Point on the Lancashire Coast.
Opened in the spring of 2019, the Horizon Line Chamber, designed by Chris Drury, houses a camera obscura. The beautiful stonework is by master stonemason Andrew Mason.
This new artwork for Morecambe Bay has been sited next to Sambo's Grave.
Sambo was a young slave, brought from his home in the West Indies to Sunderland in 1736. Upon arrival, his master the captain left Sambo at a local inn while he went away on business. Legend says that Sambo died of a broken heart because he thought his master had deserted him, but probably he had picked up a European disease to which he had no immunity. Not being a Christian, Sambo could not be buried in consecrated ground, so sailors dug a small grave behind the village.