So this is fascinating! Fwiw, local field-and place-name evidence supports the idea of some sort of Romano-British settlement at Skegness… >https://twitter.com/lidongni/status/888373823556472837 …
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> However, not likely to be under the beach but offshore, as sailors in the E17thC reported that the steeple of Old Skegness church, which >
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> was destroyed by the sea in the 16thC, then lay at some distance beyond the low water mark :) See http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html?m=1 …pic.twitter.com/d8UUnYiaVv
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Skegness was not the only Lincolnshire coastal settlement lost to sea in 16thC, btw—Mumby Chapel destroyed in 1570: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/W7Vd9Siq8y
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