Draws on many sources, from ancient legends to parish maps, old chronicles and surveys, gathering together the rare fragments of literary, pictorial and folklore remains detailing information on the remains of lands around the British coast which have been destroyed by the sea. The roll-call of these lost lands and the fate of once thriving coastal towns such as Dunwich and settlements such as Caer Arianrhod and the lost Lowland Hundred of Cantref y Gwaelod, challenges us to reconsider whether the lost land of Lyonesse, which once extended from Land's End to the Scilly Isles, existed solely in Arthurian legend. The underwater forests of Wales, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Kent and Sussex, the lost Saxon cathedral off the anchorage of Selsey Bill - once a great parkland and Goodwin Sands - once good farmland, but now a notorious graveyard for shipping, are all among the many lost lands of Britain described here. Liberally illustrated with diagrams, drawings and photographs.
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It's been awhile since I read this, but it still stands out in my memory for all the things I learned from it.
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Pennick is one of the best Odinist writers on the planet but this one bored me. It read more like an archaeology study book than a heathen or fortean book. Very dry! He didn't go into the old folklore surrounding the legends (many of which were proven to be factual) of various lost and sunken lands in the British Isles as much as he should have.
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