The story detailed by Peter Roper concerns the day he realised that he could fly.
The story, first outlined in the Parish Pump, the local magazine distributed across the three villages of Pevensey, Pevensey Bay and Westham every three months since 1968, is an account of the day that Peter single handedly discovered the long lost Pevensey Lagoon.
The mysterious lagoon he read about, the one that the Norman ships had supposedly sailed into in 1066AD to land on the North side of old Anderida in a perfectly formed shallow bay focused his attention.
‘I found much in the way of descriptive accounts, but very little in the way of images and for me it’s images that impress on the mind and graphically explain how things were’.
Whilst no account of the shape of the lagoon can be described as being definitive, nonetheless, the work of local man, Peter Roper, is being cited as having significance, not just in the debate over where the Normans landed, or perhaps more accurately, didn’t land, but also what the Pevensey Lagoon looked like in Roman Times.
No doubt exploration of the exact nature of the lagoon over time will continue.
Pevensey Timeline Association, which has included his work in their ’2,000 year story of Pevensey and its rich history’ commented; ‘we are very proud this week to have added such an original first video to the Pevensey Timelime and to welcome Peter Roper as a member of the Association’.
‘This work and reference (2012) in the search to find the mysterious long lost Pevensey Lagoon looks likely to become a milestone of some description’.
PEVENSEY TIMELINE : You can fly over the lagoon here
IMAGE CREDIT : TOM CHIVERS : THE ISLAND REVIEW : IN SEARCH OF THE LOST ISLANDS OF SUSSEX
