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Rising, up over 18 inches in the last century. david givens is the director of archaeology. jamestown holds supreme in terms of world heritage. this place is, in our minds, where you draw a line in the sand about sea level rise, climate change, and cultural heritage. reporter: that line in the sand started with a six-month project to shore up the sea wall along the river bank that was built in 1904, adding 96,000 tons of granite to help deflect the force of ever-strengthening storms. but the biggest threat to jamestown actually isn t the rising river. it s this swamp that s literally devouring history as it grows. you increasingly have water from both sides, and below. we have it from both sides, below, abve. we re getting attacked from all sides. reporter: leading jamestown s fight against climate change is michael lavit. we re going to have to raise buildings, raise roads, do salvage archaeology, put in berms, pump systems, to truly save jamestown. reporter: but saving ....

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