‘Many of the smaller buildings are buried in sand but larger ruins can be seen.’ ‘Raised roads, walls and T junctions all ...

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In the end, large storms carried huge amounts of sand from the nearby coast to the town and completely buried it beneath thousands of tons of the material. READ MORE: The riverside village with ...