{"id":784,"date":"2014-02-22T23:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T23:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=784"},"modified":"2014-02-22T23:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T23:16:04","slug":"rain-brings-underground-world-into-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Rain brings underground world into view"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why have so many holes and voids opened up all over Thanet\u00a0 in the recent rainy weather? <\/p>\n

That’s the question people keep asking us and we’ve seen plenty of evidence recently that Thanet’s rich underground world has surprises to reveal.<\/p>\n

But, should we find it so unusual. Thanet’s chalk geology was a source of lime for Brick making and spreading on fields, tunnels and mines were cut through the solid chalk\u00a0 and air raid shelters, stores and drains were dug all over the Isle. The ground beneath us holds many subterranean secrets.<\/p>\n

Many of these were forgotten when their entrances were lost or covered over. Some underground sites have stayed hidden for many decades until finally the wet weather washing away the crumbling chalk has brought these hidden sites to our attention.<\/p>\n

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Underground Thanet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Underground Thanet by Rod LeGear, a small book published by the Trust, gives a great round up of the hidden world of caves, tunnels and other voids in the chalk that lies beneath our feet.<\/p>\n

A few copies of the first edition of this book are still available to order from our website<\/a>. If you really want to know about Thanet’s Underground heritage its a great place to start finding out.<\/p>\n

Underground Thanet is available for \u00a38.00 +\u00a32.00 post and can be ordered now with secure online PayPal payment, no PayPal account needed.<\/p>\n


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To order by post use our mail order form which you can get from here: Order form<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why have so many holes and voids opened up all over Thanet\u00a0 in the recent rainy weather? That’s the question people keep asking us and we’ve seen plenty of evidence recently that Thanet’s rich underground world has surprises to reveal. But, should we find it so unusual. Thanet’s chalk geology was a source of lime … Continue reading Rain brings underground world into view<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,33,1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-publications","category-thanet_archaeology","category-uncategorised","category-whatson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}