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The tsunami that hit Britain

As we watched the terrible scenes around the Indian Ocean, how many 
Europeans were aware that in 5900BC a tsunami crossed the North Sea? It 
was caused by a massive submarine landslide off the coast of Norway, the 
second Storegga slide, likely affecting the whole of the Atlantic, 
including the north American coast.

Archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones told British Archaeology, through 
hurricane winds in Orkney, that no evidence has yet been found for related 
loss of human life or settlement damage, but these will certainly have 
occurred. Everyone then lived from hunting and gathering; there would have 
been many people near the shore.
Since the last ice melted around 9500BC, Scotland, relieved of the great 
weight, has risen from the sea, while southern England, never burdened 
with glaciers, has sunk. Tsunami evidence in the south will be submerged, 
but in the north the then coastline is now inland.

A layer of sand up to a metre thick has been found at several locations on 
the east coast of Scotland. The best evidence, says David Smith of the 
School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, is on 
Shetland; the furthest south just below Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is now 
thought the tsunami's impact can also be seen on Greenland. Smith's 
research assistant, Sue Dawson, has found wild cherry seeds in Scottish 
deposits, indicating an autumn event, matching Norwegian fish bone growth 
evidence.

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