Doggerland: The Lost Country Under the North Sea

In 1931, a fishing trawler called the Colinda hauled up its net twenty-five miles off the coast of Norfolk, and inside a lump of waterlogged peat was a carved antler point — a hunting weapon, made by hand, from a hundred and twenty feet below the surface of the North Sea. There was no boat down there. That peat never fell into the sea — the sea rose over it. It was the ground of a lost country the size of Britain, where thousands of people lived and hunted for thousands of years, until the North Sea swallowed it for good. Subscribe for more videos like this:    / @deepearthofficial   CHAPTERS 0:00 The Colinda's Strange Catch (1931) 1:10 The Buried Country 2:50 What the Trawlers Bring Up 4:32 Someone Already Knew 7:10 The Wave 9:57 What's Left of Doggerland SOURCES & CREDITS Terrain: NASA Earth Observatory (Blue Marble: Next Generation); Esri World Imagery; GEBCO_2020 bathymetry (GEBCO Compilation Group) via api.opentopodata.org Storegga Slide figure: Karstens, Haflidason, Berndt & Crutchley, "Revised Storegga Slide reconstruction reveals two major submarine landslides 12,000 years apart", Communications Earth & Environment (2023), CC BY 4.0 Clement Reid's 1913 map and "Submerged Forests" cover: public domain (Wikimedia Commons / archive.org) Clement Reid portrait: Wikimedia Commons Vincent Gaffney portrait: Hakai Magazine, "Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea" Barbed bone points from the Maasvlakte (objects 60072, 60077): Museum Rotterdam, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) Mammoth molar: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Woolly rhino tooth: Wikimedia Deutschland "Em" series, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) Giant deer (Irish elk) skull: Cleveland Museum of Natural History via Flickr, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) Cave lion skull (Crayford): Museum of London, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) Dredger rainbowing sand off the Dutch coast: inyucho, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Trawl net emptied on deck: Marie-Noelle De Casamajor / Ifremer, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier: Bj.schoenmakers, Wikimedia Commons (CC0) Submerged forest at Newgale: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) Seismic survey vessel Ramform Titan: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Dogger Bank Wind Farm: © Dogger Bank Wind Farm Ltd, 2023, via doggerbank.com Sound effects (SoundBible.com, Attribution 3.0): "Wood Hull On Boat Creaking", "Rope Swinging", "Footsteps", "Muted Metal Pot Hit", "Splat", "Water Down Gutter 3", "Tearing Flesh And Bone", "Crumbling", "Wooden Thump" — Mike Koenig Music: original score #Doggerland #NorthSea #Archaeology