Missing Lincs? Some lost islands along the Lincolnshire coast — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/08/missing-lincs-some-lost-islands.html …pic.twitter.com/dJ64FJSvGE
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Samuel Thornton's 1707 chart of the Humber, showing Sunk Island when it was still an island & Burcom at the entrance to the port of Grimsby.pic.twitter.com/EJlj3kWuNl
Burcom is prob OE *burg-cyme/*burg-cuma, referring to borough of Grimsby; shown as an island on 19th–E20thC maps, but now a sand bar again.pic.twitter.com/Ng8Y2vrf0x
An Ottoman Turkish map of the Humber c.1803/04, w/ Sunk Island joined to the N bank & Burcom at entrance to Grimsby: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200m.gct00235/?sp=52 …pic.twitter.com/xvsGSg71kw
A 1541 map of the Humber estuary, showing islands around Spurn Head and in the middle of the Humber (now Bull Sand): http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/h/001cotaugi00001u00086000.html …pic.twitter.com/l801V1eG72
Of course, prob the most interesting lost island in this area is Ravenserodd, reportedly a 13th–14thC pirate island…https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/701842251836735488 …
Ravenserodd thrown up by the sea in 13thC & rapidly developed as a 'pirate' town; subsequently destroyed by sea a century later, 1330–62.pic.twitter.com/7y9CEhqOR6
Stain Hill and the Lincolnshire Marshes in the Anglo-Saxon period — http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/11/stain-hill-anglo-saxon-marsh.html …pic.twitter.com/jXWfksskmT
Lidar images of Stain Hill Roman and Anglo-Saxon site, a probable island in the coastal marsh in the AS period, via https://youtu.be/zZjqzcMFXi8 pic.twitter.com/gOzvXnAZaK
Another 'lost' island in the Lincolnshire Marshes is Conisholme, 'the king's island'; still shown as an island on 17th–18thC maps…pic.twitter.com/gJSq5w2Mal
The 2nd island shown in the Lud 'estuary', between outfalls, is prob a ?13thC storm beach+saltern mounds, visible on geological maps+lidar.pic.twitter.com/GOSM05HzB1
The storm beaches here are prob remains of the coastal barrier islands that were destroyed by the sea in the 13thC:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/597501263501250560 …
A little further south, the former islands of glacial deposits standing above the surrounding marine alluvium (yellow) to the east of Alfordpic.twitter.com/XW2aP7fTbM
Clipped copy of a silver coin of Arcadius struck at Milan 395–402; found on the Cumberworth 'island', Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/244475 …pic.twitter.com/N5xYc4lQBG
Another interesting lost 'island' from Lincolnshire—albeit one situated on the edge of the Middle Marsh rather than in the Outmarsh—is Little Carlton; some of the fascinating Middle Saxon finds from here (including this glass mount) are currently on display in @LouthMuseum :)pic.twitter.com/3DQWWHKoj6
The base of a Middle Saxon blue glass inkwell found at the intriguing 'island' site of Little Carlton, Lincolnshire; currently on display in @LouthMuseum.pic.twitter.com/4XxJuXDNPo
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