More evidence of Cantre'r Gwaelod (the 'The Lowland Hundred') in Cardigan Bay

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Large parts Norfolk have also lost land.. Eccles petitions Henry VIII to have their taxes reduced as they were being taxed on 2000 acres and they only had 200 left, and they've lost a lot more since then..
Further up Cromer used to be inland and the Village of Shipden existed between them and the sea.

There are older reports (around 540AD) from the west country that an entire kingdom was washed away, it's thought a possible Tsunami hit that area..

Loosing land in the UK is not unusual..
 

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But just because you prove that something happened (which they haven't) doesn't mean that all, or even any, of the myths that subsequently develop about it are true.

True - but the article title does say 'may', and the discovery of a C13th map showing two apparently quite large islands (perhaps each one quarter the size of Anglesey) is surely interesting.

Large parts Norfolk have also lost land.. Eccles petitions Henry VIII to have their taxes reduced as they were being taxed on 2000 acres and they only had 200 left, and they've lost a lot more since then..
Further up Cromer used to be inland and the Village of Shipden existed between them and the sea.

There are older reports (around 540AD) from the west country that an entire kingdom was washed away, it's thought a possible Tsunami hit that area..

Loosing land in the UK is not unusual..

Thanks - I was not aware of the west country case (does the lost kingdom have a name?) though of course changes on the east coast are well-known.
 

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True - but the article title does say 'may', and the discovery of a C13th map showing two apparently quite large islands (perhaps each one quarter the size of Anglesey) is surely interesting.



Thanks - I was not aware of the west country case (does the lost kingdom have a name?) though of course changes on the east coast are well-known.
Sadly My brain doesn't remember the name, I'd have to find the book info came from, I have several thousand books and about 2/3 are historical.. but it was recent so that narrows it down.
 

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Sadly My brain doesn't remember the name, I'd have to find the book info came from, I have several thousand books and about 2/3 are historical.. but it was recent so that narrows it down.

Thanks - I tried a quick internet search to no avail, but will try more carefully later.
 

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Lyonesse was certainly mentioned in that book, but it placed it as I say in 540ish. which certainly would be a better date than 1099 as 1099 was within written history, whereas 540 was during that difficult period where very little was written in the UK.
I think though it was referring to somewhere a little further up the north coast of the west country..
 

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True - but the article title does say 'may', and the discovery of a C13th map showing two apparently quite large islands (perhaps each one quarter the size of Anglesey) is surely interesting.

I agree it is interesting.

I was responding to the headline you quoted 'may show evidence of Wales' Atlantis'.

Large parts Norfolk have also lost land.. Eccles petitions Henry VIII to have their taxes reduced as they were being taxed on 2000 acres and they only had 200 left, and they've lost a lot more since then..
Further up Cromer used to be inland and the Village of Shipden existed between them and the sea.

It both amuses and saddens me that people demand huge sums of public money is spent in a vain attempt to prevent their relatively recently built seafront houses in e.g. Happisburgh and Hemsby falling into the sea, and/or to compensate them, when that coast has been receding for 10,000 years or more.
 

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The houses At Happisburgh were behind sea defences.. until the council decided to remove hem to save money. and it's not in Vain.. Further down between Eccles and Waxham, there are rock Sea defences and they have been very successful.
They only weren't extended to past Happisburgh because two people objected and one of those didn't live there!!
As it is, one of the next buildings likely to go is the church, which is nearing 1000 years old in some bits.. Is that too Recent?
 
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