Timble2
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More lost lands....
At:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,1596,1046445,00.html
It goes on about a lost river, roughly done the centre of the channel, to which the Rhine, Thames and Seine were originally just tributaries.
I don't know about finding anything cyclopean under there, but even finding the lost villages would be great.
At:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,1596,1046445,00.html
Britain's drowned landscapes
New underwater technology to reveal an age when the UK was linked to Europe by plains and forests
Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday September 21, 2003
The Observer
Herds of reindeer and horses migrated across its plains, huge forests covered much of the countryside and men and women made their homes by rivers and lakes.
Then came the deluge, and this ancient Arcadia - which stretched across the North Sea, and covered the Channel - was inundated. All signs of human and animal activity were covered by several hundred feet of water. Only the occasional stone tool, bone harpoon and mammoth tusk, trawled from the sea bed by fishing boats, has provided reminders of this lost world's existence.
But the drowned lands of the North Sea and Channel may soon be revealed by British scientists using a revolutionary underwater scanning technique that can create sea-bed maps and images as accurate and detailed as those made of dry land. In the process, the idea of Britain as an island kingdom will be challenged by researchers.
'For the first time, we have the technology to map the North Sea and Channel sea beds in unsurpassed detail,' said Dr David Miles, chief archaeologist of English Heritage. 'That offers us a unique chance to open up our history. There could be dozens of perfectly preserved sites down there.'..............
It goes on about a lost river, roughly done the centre of the channel, to which the Rhine, Thames and Seine were originally just tributaries.
I don't know about finding anything cyclopean under there, but even finding the lost villages would be great.