Journal . 9 SoorMtvfe/K # ^o/trst-Aoe !l «<^ ? *^ i t 0 •ScMC X J Mll-t Fig. 5.—Plan op Adur Estuary showing High Water Lines before the Time of Christ and Now. ACCRETION AT ESTUARY HARBOURS. 223 f £.Au/sfC//ve;. S C A t- £ 2. /y\fi.£S Fig 6.—Plan of Shoreham Harbour in 1587 from Survey made by SirThomas Palmere. followed by erosion on the west end of the spit on the easternside ; the shingle thus moved away being formed into the trans-verse spit referred to. After the passing of the Shoreham Harbour Act, in 1816, thepresent artificial entrance was again made at Kingston. From the available
Journal . 9 SoorMtvfe/K # ^o/trst-Aoe !l «<^ ? *^ i t 0 •ScMC X J Mll-t Fig. 5.—Plan op Adur Estuary showing High Water Lines before the Time of Christ and Now. ACCRETION AT ESTUARY HARBOURS. 223 f £.Au/sfC//ve;. S C A t- £ 2. /y\fi.£S Fig 6.—Plan of Shoreham Harbour in 1587 from Survey made by SirThomas Palmere. followed by erosion on the west end of the spit on the easternside ; the shingle thus moved away being formed into the trans-verse spit referred to. After the passing of the Shoreham Harbour Act, in 1816, thepresent artificial entrance was again made at Kingston. From the available historical evidence it is possible to tracewith some degree of accuracy the rate of the formation of the saltmarshes and the gradual silting up of the natural estuary harbour. The first port was at Steyning, now about 5| miles inland ofthe present harbour, and this was no doubt the ancient PortusAdurni. An agreement, dated 1103, between the Abbot of Fe-camp and De Broase, Lord of Bramber, mentions that in thedays of Edward the Confessor (1042-66) ships then used thePortus St. Cuthmanni, Steyning, but that in 1103 the harbourwas much impeded by accretion.* Camden, writing in 1607, stated that vessels whi
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