Digitising Doggerland

Until around 8,000 years ago, Britain and the European mainland were connected by a land bridge that today is known as Doggerland. Although now submerged beneath the North Sea, this lost landscape has been recreated in an interactive simulation by archaeologists at the University of Bradford. The digital model and accompanying animation – created by Philip Murgatroyd, Simon Fitch, Rachel Harding, and Vince Gaffney as part of the Unpath’d Waters project, exploring the UK’s maritime heritage collections – traces the gradual disappearance of the landmass. It begins around 20,000 years ago, when Doggerland stretched across the North Sea, and shows how its exposed extent fluctuated, th