๐ฌ๐ง Our island once stretched further. ๐ฌ๐ง
An entire country now lies beneath the North Sea.
And it still gives us new discoveries.
This is the story of Doggerland. The missing island of Europe.
10,000 years ago, the sea looked different. Britain was joined to Europe by a green plain. Wider than England is today.
Rivers, marshlands, low hills, herds of red deer.
And Mesolithic families followed those herds. Hunters. Fishermen. Mothers. Children.
They called it home for thousands of years.
๐ฅ Then the climate warmed. The ice retreated. The sea rose. The plain became marsh. The marsh became coast.
And around 6,200 BC, a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway tore loose. The Storegga slide. It sent a wave across the North Sea.
Doggerland drowned. The country was finished in a single afternoon.
Today, the country sits beneath 100 metres of water. But the sea is shallow. The trawlers reach the old land.
The first piece came up in 1931. A trawler off Norfolk hauled in a bone harpoon. Hand-carved. Barbed. Still sharp.
Older than every cathedral in Britain.
The trawler was called the Colinda.
๐๏ธ Because the people of Doggerland did not all drown. Some climbed higher. To the chalk hills of what is now Norfolk. To the moors of Yorkshire. To the river valleys of Cambridgeshire.
They became Britons. Their descendants became the British.
And the British are still here. Still walking the same hills. Still buried in the same chalk.
Britain is older than its coastline. Older than its name.
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A country drowned.
The ones who climbed higher became the British.
Their story is yours to carry. ๐๐
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Be part of us. โ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
Be Proud Of Us. ๐๐ฌ๐ง
John is a wonderful man. When he played for Cardiff city I wrote to him as he was my hero and he actually hand wrote back to me within a week. You have no idea what this did for a 10 year-old boy.
John Toshack and his son Cameron were one of the first people to come and visit when I was recovering from Cancer.. Singleton hospital Swansea. Iโll never forget it.. heโs a hero and a great man .. wishing John and his family well as he fights his own battle ๐
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