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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Feel sorry for the poor bloke that lost them, that was a veritable fortune back then - a penny was the average daily wage for a worker.
    Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I certainly concur that perhaps they were lost from a shipwreck-certainly no one would bury them on a beach?

    Or lost because of the tides- are the incoming tides as swift as at Mont St. Michel in Normandy France- about the speed of a galloping horse?

    LordM- put on those waders and get ready to run, man, run!image
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    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    It's certainly hard to understand what could have happened. That is a lot of loot to just leave behind, or to lose and not recover. It makes me wonder if it wasn't possibly pillaged and dropped during an escape?
  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭


    << <i>LordM- put on those waders and get ready to run, man, run!image >>




    I thought it might be a nice little motivational story for him. Now go and make us all proud.image
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    There might be sea level depth information for that region published. If interested you could contact someone at a Geography/Earth Science department at the nearest University. 800 years ago that beach may have been 40 feet under water, or up higher on land. But likely the former.
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    800 years ago that beach may have been 40 feet under water, or up higher on land. But likely the former.

    You're absolutely right!

    Would you like to make appropriate contact and let us know?image

    If not, it's OK...
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • BjornBjorn Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
    That is really cool! I think that there has been some rising of the sea level vs. the Welsh coast - there is a submerged forest off shore from one beach... I'll check into this and post anything I may find later (unless someone beats me to it).
  • RobPRobP Posts: 483 ✭✭
    It's right at the western edge of the sandy coastline. Go west from here and everything gets rocky, so I don't think there would be too much shifting sand though you might get a small amount of deposition. The bay is protected from the sandy mainland north Welsh coast by the Menai Straits separating Anglesey from the mainland which has a strong tidal flow through the narrow passage, so any migration of sand from Liverpool Bay and the Dee estuary area would tend to be washed down through the straits and be deposited on the south side of Anglesey and the west coast of Wales. The Irish Sea is quite shallow to the north east of Anglesey and there is a significant tidal range with the English coast experiencing up to nearly 10m tides. This range drops to 6 or 7m around Llandona and about 4m on the west side of Anglesey, so there are still good strong currents to move the sand around, though it is not going to move sand as efficiently as the currents further to the east.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,847 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought it might be a nice little motivational story for him. Now go and make us all proud. >>

    It's working. image

    BTW, I have a nice site lined up for Sunday. I hunted it twice, eleven years ago. Found a 1940s Brit shilling there (.500 silver- my only Brit silver to date, though that will change this fall, haha), a couple of Mercs including one that got melted in a fire, and possibly the nicest Barber dime I've ever dug (just a 1916 but super sharp-probably AU+). Among other things, including many Wheaties . There is a Victorian house there and was an antebellum (and probably even colonial) era plantation in the same area.

    I barely scratched the surface on this site when I was there in 1999. Should be promising.

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  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    I quickly searched on google; and it looks like sea level around Britain has only risen just less than 1 meter over the past 1000 years.

    So the coins were likely deposited on the beach, or washed in from further out to sea, which Mr. Besly stated

  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭


    << <i>I quickly searched on google; and it looks like sea level around Britain has only risen just less than 1 meter over the past 1000 years.

    So the coins were likely deposited on the beach, or washed in from further out to sea, which Mr. Besly stated >>





    Thanks, Colin. image


    I would imagine that a storm surge could have washed them ashore. This sort of thing happens quite often from what I hear. There are lots of possibilities....
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