Lyonesse, City of Lions, was supposedly drowned by a storm on November 11, 1099. This great city was supposed to have been on land between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Fishermen have seen both church steeples and megaliths rising out of the sea in certain weather conditions. Some ancient Phoenicians that traded with the Celtic peoples of the British Isles were reputed to have settled in Lyonesse, but were drowned in a great storm which sunk the City of Lions and made it a place of legend.
