The Bridge at the Bottom of the Sea

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fitzcoraldo Nov 17, 2005 13:26:53
Replying to Littlestone

'fraid I can't download realplayer on my works machine so I'll check it out when I get home in a couple of weeks.
Not sure how 'untouched' the sea bed is though.
I've seen scans and pictures of the north sea bed after a beam trawler has been over it - scoured clean. Add to that the toxic waste grounds and slurry mountains, I would imagine many parts of the North sea are pretty much knackered.
The CBA recently published a nice book called "Submarine prehistoric archaeology of the North Sea" there's a lot of work being done, mainly off the coasts of Holland & Denmark. I'd recommend having a look at the book just for pictures alone.
There's a brief summary here
www.english-heritage.org.uk/ upload/pdf/CB48_20_Submerged.pdf

P PeterH
PeterH Nov 17, 2005 16:16:29
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Yes I agree. I've been looking at some of the North Sea stuff recently. It is fascinating, but hardly likely to "re-write history". 1000's of mammoth tusks and bones have been dredged up so there will certainly be areas that have been scraped clean. The trawer "Colinda" brought up a fine antler "harpoon" spearhead way back in the 1930's. It was found in a block of peat so was not dropped from a boat. The geology is not going to give much if anything in the way of megaliths and the people of the time when it was dry land would have been nomadic. My understanding is that the land was sometime wooded and sometime marshy or boggy
Fierce currents and movement of sand will have buried much and moved much.

Have yet to listen to the radio programe