Mudlarking
As if under the spell of some Old Testament prophet, the turning tide drains Scilly of its turquoise sea and from nowhere, it seems, citizen and tourist alike begin to pick their way, more or less dry-shod, across low sandy causeways to what had recently been a neighbouring island – to visit friends, to take advantage of the free passage or, more l
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the landscape archaeologist Della Hooke has plotted evidenceo for the routes along which salt was traded from Droitwich, locally and regionally and, by way of an overland route via the River Thames, to a wider clientèle.12
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Between Nils’s time and Celsius’s sketch of the rock, in 1743, the water level had dropped nearly eight feet. Nils’s island was gradually becoming part of the mainland; today, it is a peninsula. In 2012, the scholar Martin Ekman located the rock that made Nils rich; by then, it was no longer in the sea at all. It stood in a young forest, surrounded... See more