Langdon Bay, Kent Langdon Bay is a bay in east Kent, England. It
is two miles east of the town of Dover, and is named after the
nearby villages of Langdon, East Langdon and West Langdon. The
cliffs around it are known as the Langdon Cliffs, there is a
prominent zig-zag path that leads from the cliff top to the
beach, this is visible from the sea. The bay is known for the
Langdon Bay Hoard - a collection of Bronze Age scrap metal found
nearby in 1974. This includes bronze axes of a French type and
is thought to represent the cargo of a boat that was caught in a
storm just after leaving the English coast, either jettisoned to
lighten and save the boat or sunk with it (if there was a wreck,
it is now lost). This demonstrates that cross-channel trade was
already occurring in the Bronze Age, if not earlier. It is owned
by the British Museum but on long-term loan and display in Dover
Museum in Market Square, Dover. Three searchlight batteries -
known as the Langdon Lights - were built into the base of the
bay's cli