EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
SNOW has fallen on parts of Suffolk today - and more could be on the way. Residents in the north east of the county woke up to snow this morning, with Dunwich among the areas affected.
Family Research (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Bailiffs’ Minute Book of Dunwich, 1404-1430 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2003. Original data: Bailey, Mark, ed.. The Bailiffs’ Minute Book of Dunwich, 1404-1430. Suffolk, England: Boydell, 1992. About Bailiffs’ Minute Book of Dunwich, 1404-1430 This database contains the minute book of the bailiffs of Dunwich from 1404 to 1430....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The fate of Dunwich, the Suffolk town that disappeared under the sea and whose church bells, according to legend, are heard tolling beneath the waves, has long exercised a hold on the English imagination. There is something melancholy about the sea silently wresting back land that we have made our own, which is why Chris Smith's warnings on the future scale of coastal erosion are likely to inspire...
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
If Gordon's feeling in need of some quality time next week, I'd recommend a walk. From Walberswick in Suffolk to Dunwich down the coast is about three miles of hard walking on saltmarsh and shingle, but worth every step. To your left is the North Sea, once teeming with rich harvests of Cod and Herring, now barren and swept by factory trawlers from Spain and France. To your right is the depression that...
bogbumper (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
We've spent the weekend in Suffolk (and a bit of Norfolk). Friday evening, Nightjar survey, preceded by a fine barbeque and a tasty Firecrest: Saturday, Sizewell: Bee Orchid Dunwich Heath Sunday, Minsmere: Common Tern. I thought this was a very artistic style of defecation Shoveler, drake moulting into eclipse plumage Tiny Moorhen Speckled Wood (the only butterfly we saw all weekend!) Juvenile Magpies...
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A medieval church which tumbled from an eroding cliff into the sea has been rediscovered by marine archaeologists. They believe the ruins they have found are St John's church, the biggest in Dunwich which was lost to the sea off the coast of Suffolk. Dunwich was once a thriving community before being swallowed up by the North Sea more than 500 years ago. Experts are using the latest acoustic imaging...
Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A medieval church which tumbled from an eroding cliff into the sea has been rediscovered by marine archaeologists. They believe the ruins they have found are St John's church, the biggest in Dunwich which was lost to the sea off the coast of Suffolk. Dunwich was once a thriving community before being swallowed up by the North Sea more than 500 years ago.[...] Source
News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Off the coast of sleepy Suffolk, Britain's own Atlantis is about to yield its secrets Adam Fresco 5 June 2008 The Times As a great port on the East of England, Dunwich was nothing short of a medieval metropolis. Eight churches, eighty ships, five religious orders - including the Benedictines, Dominicans and Franciscans - and prosperity to rival London from its trade in wool, grain, fish and furs. Such...
Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Dunwich, on the Suffolk coast, was a thriving metropolis before a series of storms and sea surges consigned the city to the North Sea five centuries ago. Stuart Bacon, a marine archaeologist, has spent the last 30 years trying to discover the secrets of the city through a series of dives, but due to extremely poor visibility he has never seen the ruins. Scientists will use the latest acoustic imaging...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 18/01/2008
The lost city of Dunwich, Britain's own underwater 'Atlantis', which has captured the imagination of people for centuries, could be revealed for the first time with high-tech underwater sonar. Marine archaeologists will explore the ancient sunken city, off the Suffolk coast, in the early summer. Dunwich, fourteen miles south of Lowestoft, was once a thriving port, and in the 14th century similar in...
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 15/01/2008
A LOST city off the Suffolk coast could soon be revealed for the first time with high-tech underwater cameras.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/10/2007
A small dog has discovered the fossilised leg bone of a giant woolly mammoth. Daisy, a miniature wire-haired dachshund, found the ancient bone, weighing about 8lb, during its early morning walk on the beach at Dunwich, Suffolk.
