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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News
Shoreham HarbourThe extensive repair work to the inner of the two piers on the western side of Shoreham Harbour entrance has now been completed. In the muddy inlet by the Training Wall, lumps of hard*rock (like the rock Sea Defences) have replaced the concrete slabs on the border of the Old Fort on the northern side.
A map of the Old Fort area will be included on this page later.
In the storms of the last few years, the Training Wall have been extensively damaged and most of the rockpools drained out on the ebbing tide. Lots of rock boulders have been placed along the Training Wall, covering up the old boulders covered in mussel beds. Mussels will recolonise, and this ecological succession is usually more interesting than the established beds, which must be still there underneath the new rocks.
There is now only one rockpool without extensive silt (instead of about 6).A wire fence with locked gates now blocks off access to the pier at most states of the tide. It is accessible at low spring tides from the Training Wall (and in emergencies should you get cut off my the incoming tide, it is relatively easy to climb the fence in parts.) This area was famous even outside Shoreham as an angling spot, because large Bass have been landed.
The work on the pier has also levelled off the shingle to make it look neater. The construction work destroyed the best area on Shoreham Beach for some of the smaller shingle plants, e.g. Rock Samphire.
However, the overall improvement in the vista must negate any small disadvantages.
(* Larvikite, a type of syenite)
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
The spell of cold weather at the beginning of the week has meant that wildlife reports were predictably non-existent.
The Tamarisk chopped down on Lancing Beach Green has now been removed. The beds of nettles remain and can be seen clearly.
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Musing:
How to be a GreenieUse a typewriter, do not use a word processor, or if you cannot afford to waste your energy banging away at a typewriter, get a typewriter-imitation font and pretend.
All your food is organic, and all of it is grown with the aid of chemicals. AH
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Sussex Web Sites
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If you want to try out a few new fonts (nothing special) and animations, try the following sites.http://www.fontopolis.net/Index.htm
http://www.animfactory.net/characters.htm
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Click on the beech trees for a new site about Lancing Ring. It is already well worth going to the page and as further information will be uploaded in the near future.
Sussex Archaeology & Folklore ***This site by David Staveley of Eastbourne contains some interesting information, including place names of places in Sussex, and information on Cissbury Ring and Chanctonbury Ring.
Historical Snippets
Lancing Ring (TQ 180 065) - A Brief HistoryThe earliest known mention of archaeological remains in the area is an Acheulian hand axe, perhaps dating 200,000 - 100,000 BC found east of Lancing College Chapel.
The track alongside Lancing Ring may be of Neolithic origin - circa 4,000 - 2,000 BC - a branch of the ridgeway from Beachy Head to Cissbury/ Chanctonbury Ring and westward through Hampshire to Salisbury Plain.
Several Bronze Age (2100 - 500 BC) finds from Lancing area are in the British Museum and a bronze age comb was found on the southern slope of the Ring area.
This information was provided by the Friends of Lancing Ring
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- Wednesday 19 April 2000
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