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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
David Keys

Revealing the secrets of Britain’s lost world: Archaeologists discover Stone Age artefacts under North Sea

In search of the Stone Age: A small autonomous unmanned vehicle about to be lowered to the seabed to carry out photographic work - (Submerged Landscapes Research Centre, University of Bradford.)

Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which now lies at the bottom of the North Sea.

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago.

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