large scale river system has been buried underneath a large sandbank. Here very high spatial resolution, swath bathymetry and sub-bottom profile (boomer) data has been acquired, as part of a large windfarm project, and from which a full 3D reconstruction of the channel system and the deposits it contains can be made. This system has again been cored, and sediments dated, but in this case the channels have evolved over multiple lowstands (periods of time when sea level was lower) over almost the last million years. These landscapes are therefore potentially contiguous with the deposits that contain the oldest evidence of hominin occupation in the British Isles (indeed North of the Alps) which are found on the adjacent Suffolk and Norfolk coast.
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