The encroachment of the sea north of Deal between 1848 and 1856 was due to the extraordinary prevalence of north-easterly winds.
[2492] Britannia antiqua, 1857, p. 282.
[2493] In regard to this statement, and also that of Roach Smith, recording the discovery of coins at Stonar (see p. 520, supra), Sir John Evans has written to me, ‘I have no personal knowledge of either of the finds of Roman coins that you mention. Roach Smith, however, and Beale Poste are competent authorities in such a case, and I see no reason why you should not accept their statements.’
[2494] Archaeol. Cant., xxv, 1902, p. 1.
[2495] Ib., pp. 4-5. This discovery stultifies Hasted’s remark (Hist. of Kent, iv, 1779, p. 173), that ‘towards the village of Walmer [as one comes from Deal] is a flat, many feet lower than the high-water mark, which the beach thrown up along the shore has fenced from the sea, and which probably when Caesar landed on this coast might be all covered with water’. Cf. C. R. S. Elvin, Records of Walmer, p. 3.
[2496] See also Archaeol. Cant., xxvi, 1904, pp. 11-2.
[2497] Part i, 9th ed., 1900, p. 339.
[2498] Britannia antiqua, pp. 288-9.
[2499] The Channel Pilot, part i, 1900, p. 338.
[2500] Geogr. Journal, ix, 1897, p. 655.