Vanished in the Flood: The Story of Doggerland | Full Documentary [50:07]

YouTube ^ | August 22, 2025 | Get.history

[SunkenCiv]

Around 8,000 years ago, a vast stretch of land connected Britain to mainland Europe. This lost world, known as Doggerland, was a thriving Mesolithic landscape teeming with mammoth, deer, and human communities. But everything changed with a catastrophic event that submerged this Stone Age Eden beneath the rising waters of the North Sea. 

In 1931, fishermen accidentally pulled prehistoric bones and tools from the seafloor, marking the first modern discovery of Doggerland. Since then, especially from the 1990s through 2019, archaeologists and scientists have used sonar scans, seabed sampling, and digital reconstructions to piece together what life was like in this ancient paradise — and how it vanished. 

Vanished in the Flood: The Story of Doggerland | Full Documentary | 50:07 
Get.history | 110K subscribers | 218,260 views | August 22, 2025

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeology; catastrophism; doggerland; godsgravesglyphs; mesolithic; northsea; norway; storegga; storeggaslide

[SunkenCiv]

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[Hebrews 11:6]

Sorry, at first glance I thought this was about LA: DodgerLand.

[SunkenCiv]

Close. In Doggerland they served Dogger Dodges.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Looks like the Doggers got rained out. The Dodgers have had only 17 rainouts in 64 years in LA.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

@6:50 [quizzically, dramatic music] “What was the harpoon doing in the middle of the North Sea?”

Oh for Pete’s sake! LOL

[Vaduz]

The most prominent English castle experiencing significant loss to the sea is Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, famous for King Arthur legends, where large parts of the island stronghold have fallen into the sea since medieval times due to constant coastal erosion. Another key example is Hurst Castle, a Tudor fort in Hampshire, where a section of its 19th-century wing collapsed into the ocean in 2021, leading to major preservation efforts.

The Brits are leaving things all over the place

[carcraft]

I saw a Josh Gates “Expedition Unknown” whwere he was exploring megalithic structures like Stone Henge on England. North of the Orkney Islands there was what appeared to be a stone ring structure on the sea floor. This makes the it appear possible.

[FrogMom]

UK author John Christopher wrote The Ragged Edge (or A Wrinkle in the Skin, depending on US or UK purchase). It was about a massive earthquake in England that, essentially, lifted the English Channel and restored Doggerland. Book had an unfinished quality to it, but the concept has stuck in my head for years!

[SunkenCiv]

I think the Ness of Brodgar has been slipping into the sea for a long while (it was even before anyone knew it was there) and excavations had wrapped up. Now apparently it's going to be reopened because of 'geophys' studies made subsequent to the closing of the site.

Why are Time Team going to be digging at The Ness of Brodgar in 2026? 

Be careful what you wish for. 

It must have been a very good night in the pub when the Ness of Brodgar archaeological team decided - after field work had ceased and the site had been backfilled in 2024 - that it would be a good time to conduct a thorough magnetometry resistivity and Ground Penetrating Radar survey of the site. 

20 more years of data anyone? Plus an inexplicable anomaly that just has be excavated? They're going to need a bigger boat! 

Mysterious discovery at Ness of Brodgar has us guessing! | 22:12 
The Prehistory Guys | 105K subscribers | 11,464 views | December 2, 2025

[Vaduz]

Good info thanks