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It was connected to continental Europe by a wide plain of land that has since been given the name Doggerland — a name derived from the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was once part of this landscape.
Doggerland encompassed what is now the southern North Sea and the English Channel, stretching from the current British coastline to what is now Denmark and the Netherlands.
This was inhabited land.
Archaeological evidence recovered from the bottom of the North Sea — brought up in fishing nets, found during oil exploration, surveyed by underwater archaeologists — indicates that Doggerland was a rich and productive landscape.
Rivers crossed it.