"Helga....Bring me my beans, for I am the Lord of Great Mongeham, and my belly rumbles with rage"
Documents recently obtained by associates of the Ripple Thunderer allege that a plan to re flood the low lying land between Northbourne, Great Mongham and the current sea defences at Deal, so as to recreate the early medieval landscape.
Up until the middle of the thirteenth century, sea vessels were able to navigate to the borders of Northbourne via an inlet of the sea that encroached inland covering the flat marshy area that is now drained by numerous gullies, drainage ditches and small rivers.
The alleged plan is to let the sea breach the current sea walls, and allow the channel to advance as far as the north east fields of Northbourne.
So as to assist with the re establishment of the tidal areas, a tunnel is currently being dug from the beach at Deal to the outskirts of Greater Mongham, and will emerge just above the valley in which the Mongham Road dissects the field en route from Ripple and meets with Ellens Road.
During the excavation of the tunnel archaeologists from the Kent and Flushing Archaeological society have unearthed a strange relic dating from Anglo Saxon times. The Amber relic is in the shape of a seated warrior and is inscribed with letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet that appears to read :-
"Helga....Bring me my beans, for I am the Lord of Great Mongeham, and my belly rumbles with rage"
Further details of the alleged flooding of the lowland between Great Mongham and the sea will be reported in due course, together with further news of the "Helga Relic".
