A European research team, including researchers from University College Cork (UCC), has found evidence of a lost prehistoric settlement in the North Sea. It has long been suspected that the southern North Sea hides a vast landscape that once was home to thousands of people. An 11-day expedition was undertaken by European scientists to explore three sites of potential geological and archaeological interest in the Brown Bank area of the southern North Sea. Acoustic techniques and physical sampling of the seabed was carried out and a large river system identified in prior modelling was also targeted. The material recovered suggests that the expedition has revealed a well-preserved, prehistoric landscape which, based on preliminary inspection of the material, must have contained a prehistoric woodland.

Source: Irish Examiner June 11, 2019 04:30 UTC