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
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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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
An Anglo-Saxon 7thC gold disc pendant found on a former island in the coastal marsh of Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/584053 …pic.twitter.com/SGsFELqMBL
Saltern mounds at Marshchapel on Haiwarde's 1595 map & Lidar; those in the east were in the coastal zone & still operational in the L16thC.pic.twitter.com/fWcEhSISqX
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
Bull Sand is now occupied by one of a pair of First World War forts guarding the Humber — see further here:http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/nostalgia/silent-guardians-of-the-humber-587173 …
A Humber pilot once told me a full size snooker table was left there - and some of those with the means to visit have keys
Really? How intriguing -- would be a fascinating place to visit, if a little dangerous by now I'd suspect!
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