THE CITY UNDER THE SEA.
EELICS FROM DUNWICH. By Telegraph—Press Association-OopyrieM (Bee. April 5, 11.30 p.m.) London, April 5. Extraordinary high tides at Thorpness and Aldcburgh, on the Suffolk coast, have displaced a million tons of earth. The beach was afterwards littered with hundreds of coins, many of them of the Saxon period, from the submerged town of Duiiwich. '
Dunwich is situated on the coast of ouffolk. . It is a very ancient town, and was once an important seaport, possibly the Roman Sitomagus. It was the earliest seat of the East Anglian Bishopric, founded about 630 a.d. It has suflcrecl greatly by successive encroachments of tho sea, which have swept away its palaces and churches until it has now become a small village. Theso encroachments appear to have commenced in tho early part of the 11th century, and in 1329 the port was choked, and some 4(10 houses swept away. A ruined church, injured by a great storm in 1740, still stands on tho sea cliff, and there are al=o extensive ruins of a Grey Friars' Monastery.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1095, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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177THE CITY UNDER THE SEA. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1095, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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