Identifier: archaeologiacant22kent_0 (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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.Although it is stated again and again that Ebbsfleet was theusual landing-place in the Isle of Thanet in ancient times,the only instances adduced are the landing of Hengist andHorsa, the landing of St. Augustine, St. Mildred, and theDanish invaders; and the locality of this Ebbsfleet is equallyobscure. With regard to the supposed presence of this greatestuary, with a mouth opening from Walmer to Peg well Bay(a distance, remember, of 8 miles), and 2 miles wide betweenthe mainland and Thanet inside Richborough, opening outinto the mouth of the Thames with a width of ; of a mile—such an inlet, washed by the waves of the Straits of Dover,must have left behind it evidences of its presence in cliffsalong its entire length; and where are they ? Then it musthave left inside some sort of beach; where is it ? Then thebed of this sea must be strewn with shells of the molluscsand other denizens of the sea, of which we find no evidencewhatever except a few cockle-shells and occasional shells of
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