microrobert
11-21-2014, 06:19 AM
Solent’s Stone Age village ‘washing away’
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In 1999, a team of divers off the Isle of Wight came across a lobster busily digging out its burrow. To their surprise they found it was kicking out flints from the Stone Age. However, archaeologists now fear artefacts dating back more than 8,000 years are simply being “washed away”.
Bouldnor Cliff is a submerged Stone Age settlement off the coast of Yarmouth which was covered in silt as great sheets of ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age.
It is an important site because the muddy conditions have helped preserve organic materials from the distant past that do not normally survive on dry land.
The materials date back to a time when the Isle of Wight did not exist and it was possible to walk from Britain to what is now France.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-29610179
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79144000/jpg/_79144629_bouldnor_2_diver.jpg
In 1999, a team of divers off the Isle of Wight came across a lobster busily digging out its burrow. To their surprise they found it was kicking out flints from the Stone Age. However, archaeologists now fear artefacts dating back more than 8,000 years are simply being “washed away”.
Bouldnor Cliff is a submerged Stone Age settlement off the coast of Yarmouth which was covered in silt as great sheets of ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age.
It is an important site because the muddy conditions have helped preserve organic materials from the distant past that do not normally survive on dry land.
The materials date back to a time when the Isle of Wight did not exist and it was possible to walk from Britain to what is now France.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-29610179