islands
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Have two lost islands been traced off the Welsh coast….?
Atlantis, Bermuda Triangle, Brutus, Cantre’r Gwaelod, Cardigan Bay, Conwy Bay, Cornwall, Dunwich, Edward IV, Gough Map, Henry IV, Hy-Brasil, Ireland, Iseult, islands, lost lands, Lyonesse, past maps, Ravenspur, Richard II, Scilly Isles, Seithenyn, South Devon, Suffolk, tristan, Trojans, Tyno Helig, WalesThe thought of lost/sunken lands has always fascinated me, beginning with the legendary land of Lyonesse, once believed to be off the coast of Cornwall, between Land’s End and the present Isles of Scilly. It features prominently in the story of Tristan and Iseult. And, like many such sunken lands, the bells of its…
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Southwark Cathedral, although only just across the Thames from St Paul’s and Westminster, has never received the same close attention of its rivals. At least, so it seems to me. Then, at the turn of the millenium, excavations began that led archaeologists back through time. A long time, because the cathedral’s beginnings stretch back over…