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Re: North Sea islands in Roman & Saxon times?

Subject: Re: North Sea islands in Roman & Saxon times?
From: Hayabusa
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:08:09 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
On 13 Aug 2006 09:43:36 -0700, "Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Roger:
>  There were, in the English Channel and in the North Sea,
>several islands known in the first six centuries of the Common Era
>that are no longer visible as such:
>some on the Cornish Coast, some on the French Coast,
>some on the coasts of the Low Countries, some on the
>Schleswig/Holstein and Danish coasts,

>  I just happen to be reading a big book on this subject.
>  If you narrow down your range of inquiry a bit, I will help you.

Hey, that's gonna be interesting. I am only aware of the following
events: 
- great flood of 19 Dec 1340 from Britanny to the North Sea, due to 
  an astronomical line-up of sun & moon coinciding with a storm, 
  I think that was the event during which the agrarian plain around
  Mont St.Michel in Normandy was turned into a tidal flat,  
- 16 Jan 1362 Stormflood, loss of Rungholt and a part of Sylt, 
  North Frisia, Germany; formation of the embayments of Jade and 
  Dollart in East Frisia, Germany
- 1436 Halloween Flood in North Frisia, loss of Rantum and Eidum, 
  two villages on Sylt;
- 11 Oct 1634 "Grosse Manndränke" (Great Drowning), Island 
  of Nordstrand split in two

Do you have more?

Hayabusa

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