Float above Yorkshire’s ‘sunken city of Semer’

This weekend a prized ancient spear will be recreated as a 50-metre-long pontoon and floated on Lake Semerwater in Yorkshire, north England. Spear (2016), by the London-based artist David Murphy, was inspired by the bronze-age artefact found at the lakes edge in the 1970s, as well as by the legend of the sunken city of Semer. Its a kind of Atlantis myth, Murphys says. A beggar curses the city with a deluge after being turned away from every home. The only structure that survives this watery end