Orkney Riddler

Doggerland   Looking for evidence in the southern North Sea that might suggest that habitable land once linked Norfolk to Holland?  Shallow seas in the southern North Sea,  Doggerland and between Norfolk,  Lincolnshire and Holland.  Summary:- Two research documents are re-framed here to provide a proof that a land corridor once joined Norfolk to Holland allowing the migration of woodlands, vegetation, insects, reptiles, mammals,  and people between Europe and Britain,  until the Neolithic period of human prehistory.  The analysis of deposits sampled in the "Europe's Lost Frontiers" project records two major erosional events.  The first of these occurs as sea levels rise to drown wetland peats at around 9000BP,  or later. Peats growing in the region were drowned as sea levels rose. Peats growing at higher levels were not found ,and are therefore likely to have been removed from these locations by a later erosional event.  The second ...

   The Orkney Riddle  Quaternary Addendum  " Archaeology in the North Sea " is intended to demonstrate that a spine of land connected Dogger Bank to a location in the northern North Sea that was accessible to Mesolithic people 10,000 years ago when sea-level was 50m below present. " Walkable Land in the North Sea " defines an area of land that would have been available for hunting, foraging, and transit for Neolithic people.  Here, I relate the geology of the North Sea to demonstrate that in a period between 60,000BP and 30,000BP,  a time in which an ice age is thought to have weighed heavily upon Britain,  in fact , although it was a bit chilly there were significant numbers of animals,  plants and people roaming the territory. The sequence of events that created the undersea landscape of the North Sea is roughly as follows :- Initially, in the last interglacial, 140,000 BP to 120,000BP, the North Sea may have been a reasonably quiet marine lagoo...