Tag: coast and sea
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The Megalith Highway
From Portugal to Orkney, Neolithic farmers built the same great stone tombs. I mapped 13,280 megalithic monuments and tested, three ways, whether the idea travelled by sea.
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Whose ships sank where?
Two centuries of shipwrecks in Europe’s seas, from Wikipedia’s lists: 106,550 wrecks placed on the map by the flag they sailed under. British ships dominate the record, but the Bay of Biscay, the Baltic, the Mediterranean and the world wars tell other stories.
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Did lighthouses work?
Between 1760 and 1900 the coasts of Britain and Ireland were ringed with new lights. I counted the wrecks recorded at each spot before and after its light was lit. The wrecks came first.
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The Triskell Boom: how an ancient spiral became a modern Celtic badge
The triple spiral is sold as an ancient Celtic sign of the Atlantic coast. Archaeological finds, Google Books and OpenStreetMap tell a newer story: an old symbol that became a Breton and Galician badge within living memory.
