Doggerland
Dogger Bank Paleolandscape · NSF Doggerland
Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic·Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers·🇬🇧 North Sea, Dogger Bank between Britain & Denmark, United Kingdom
About
About Doggerland
Vast Mesolithic plain linking Britain to Europe (11000–5500 BCE) with river valleys, forests, hunting camps surveyed via seismic and cores; inundated by post-glacial rise and Storegga tsunami 6200 BCE. Not a city but inhabited landscape with settlements (briefly Seahenge context).
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Natural landscape; sites: 9000–6200 BCE
- Period
- Upper Palaeolithic to Mesolithic
- Culture
- Maglemosian / Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
- Purpose
- Habitation landscape
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
Natural landscape; sites: 9000–6200 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1445 CE
Abandonment
Location
Where it is
55.0000° N · 2.5000° E · -32 m