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Submerged Prehistoric Landscape Archaeology

This project follows on from an earlier AHRB Innovations Award to Penny Spikins in 2002 on the modelling of submerged sites in the North Sea Basin and is focussed on the investigation of two underwater sites in Britain, Bouldnor Cliff in the Solent, which has produced clear evidence of Mesolithic materials including hearths, artefacts and worked timber, and Browns Bay on the Northumberland coast, where the status of the site remains to be explored.

These sites are unique in Britain and provide potential insight into the use of coastal environments during the final postglacial rise of sea level and an opportunity to develop methods and expertise in underwater investigations