Posted on 02/16/2016 7:22:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Dunwich is the iconic lost city -- in the early Middle Ages this town was one of the largest in England, and its outer walls stood nearly two miles beyond the present shoreline. Since then coastal erosion, and particularly several huge storms in the late 1200s and early 1300s, have almost entirely destroyed the town. Only the old Greyfriars Priory and a solitary gravestone survive of the old town...
The project also found a new shipwreck off the coast of Dunwich. Dive team leader, Professor David Sear from Southampton University, reports from the Underwater Dunwich dive on the site's newly revealed secrets:
"The work at Dunwich, also known as 'Britain's Atlantis', has a number of aims, one of which is to dive on new sites revealed by a previous large scale mapping project back in 2011. The new survey involved sending a diver down with a DIDSON sonar -- a novel system that uses sound instead of light to 'illuminate' objects rather like a torch and means objects can be identified even in muddy water.
We dived the first site -- located north of Dunwich and close inshore. The site proved to be a shipwreck. The diver could see the ribs of a wooden vessel, with piles of stone ballast lying in between each rib and in a pile on the landward side. Feeling around one of the ribs, the diver found it covered by a thin sheet of copper. Copper sheathing was put on the bottom of ships hulls after 1750AD so we knew we had a wreck from the last 250 years..."
(Excerpt) Read more at touchingthetide.org.uk ...
Touching the Tide worked with the University of Southampton to complete the mapping of this lost underwater city. The slice of map above shows the Dunwich 2000 land line and the town as it was in 1587 and 1826 digitized with overlaid aerial photography.
Dunwich people must have been driving real polluting SUV’s.
If this had occurred in the current day, it would be blamed on man-made global warming.
All Saints stood surprisingly well, and when I was younger I met an old Suffolker who remembered climbing its tower. But during the early years of the twentieth century, after the new pier was built north of here at Lowestoft, the pattern of the tides underwent an alarming change, and in February 1904 the sea began to take the ruin of All Saints off to its destiny. The tower went on the 12th November 1919, leaving just a single buttress, which was rescued and reset in the graveyard of the new church of St James. Hauntingly, it carries graffiti from sightseers who visited it during its lonely sojourn on the clifftop. Also in the graveyard is part of a pillar from the former facade, recovered from the beach. All Saints was one of Suffolk's biggest churches; at 149 feet long, it was of a scale with Southwold. This gives us some idea of the speed with which the cliff eroded away. Throughout the twentieth century, people have come to Dunwich to see the last relics of All Saints. Until the 1950s, it was still easy to find identifiable lumps of masonry on the beach. When I first came here in 1985, the bones of those buried in All Saints' graveyard protruded gruesomely from the cliff, and a single gravestone, to John Brinkley Easey, stood in an inconceivably bleak loneliness at the cliff top. [Suffolk Churches]
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
That sounds like a real Dunwich horror.
My point was that Ephesus was MILES inland but USED to be a sea port. The land between Ephesus and the Aegean Sea had filled in between THEN and now.
So, the English fill-in seems to be normal for this earth.
there are many underwater cities that generally nobody knows about.
Yet these cities are never mentioned when it come to debunking Climate Change or Global Warming or whatever somebody is calling it today.
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=underwater+cities&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
In the Anglo-Saxon period, Dunwich was the capital of Kingdom of the East Angles but the harbour and most of the town have since disappeared due to coastal erosion. At its height it was an international port similar in size to 14th-century London. Its decline began in 1286 when a storm surge hit the East Anglian coast followed by a great storm in 1287 and another great storm also in 1287, and it was eventually reduced in size to the village it is today. Dunwich is possibly connected with the lost Anglo-Saxon placename Dommoc... On 1 January 1286, a storm surge reached the east edge of the town and destroyed buildings in it. Before that, most recorded damage to Dunwich was loss of land and damage to the harbour. This was followed by two further surges the next year, the South England flood of February 1287 and St. Lucia's flood in December. A fierce storm in 1328 also swept away the entire village of Newton, a few miles up the coast. Another large storm in 1347 swept some 400 houses into the sea. The Grote Mandrenke around 16 January 1362 finally destroyed much of the remainder of the town. [Dunwich - Wikipedia]
Fracking!
When did SONAR become a novelty?
My wife and I visited Ephesus and Mary’s house a couple of years ago. There is a very beautiful peacefulness of the place that is hard to explain. Almost takes you back 2000 years. :)
10 Mysterious Underwater Cities You Haven’t Heard Of
Listverse | August 5, 2013 | Andrew Handley
Posted on 12/14/2014 3:38:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3237204/posts
You don’t even WANT to know what HP Lovecraft found in Dunwich ...
Chelsea Hubbell?
I’m pretty sure I don’t know what you mean. When did reading become a novelty?
Dual-Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON)
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1002424
I was going to say something about Yog-Sothoth coming to visit, but, it’s the wrong Dunwich. :(
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