Underwater Dunwich {3rd largest city in England swept into sea, 14th c}

Touching the Tide ^ | 2016 | website : onesuffolk, design : squircle creative

[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..."

[SunkenCiv]

From a safe distance. ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! This technology appears to be what has been used in the wild goose chase search for the missing 747.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3289273/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3383809/posts

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like Sandra Dee ain’t lousy with virginity there.

[colorado tanker]

I found the trailer for this movie and it looks like a real stinker. There is Sandra Dee on the sacrificial alter in a somewhat revealing gown, though.

[Moltke]

That usually appears in the form, "why don't journalists learn how to write?".

Allow me to amend that diversionary comment to "why don't journalists learn how to think?" (a lost cause, I know)...but is there any reason why I should adhere to that particular line? I'm fine with writing my own comments, thank you very much. That said, I don't see any reason for the antagonism, I generally appreciate your posts. Thank you.

[Bigg Red]

Fascinating

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 02/16/2016. Just an update.

• Dig Report: Dunwich | Time Team | 5 Jul 2013

Time Team - Season 19, Episode 3 - The Drowned Town (Dunwich, Suffolk)