Underwater Archeology

cfuserkildare

Hi, Was just looking at Google Maps and began to wonder how much usable land there was around Ireland during the last Ice Age?

Having been a follower of Graham Hancock for a while now it makes me think that perhaps there is much more to be found off the coasts of this little country, if ancient artifacts are being dragged up off southern England what is being brought up here and how can we find out if it is regulated and charted.

If anybody has any thoughts on this post em up.

Cheers.

Riamfada

You would have to first identify the exact coastline of the meso/neo periods to identify possible locations for coastal communities in local areas then start diving.

slowburner

Isn't there something off the coast near Bray?

cfuserkildare

I was thinking more like where sea level would have been during the last 2 periods of glaciation when the sea level would be 350 to 400 feet lower than it is today and off the west coast looks ideal to me.
Will add co-ordinates later.
Any thoughts on this? Post em up.

Cheers.

Hootanany

Hy-Brasil what about there

slowburner

cfuserkildare

Slowburner ? cant see pic.

slowburner

Now?

cfuserkildare

Yeah that is cool, do you have a date on that map? as it fits in with what I was looking at on Google Maps.

Hootanany

Some say that was Atlantis

slowburner

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Yeah that is cool, do you have a date on that map? as it fits in with what I was looking at on Google Maps.

1572.
Abraham Ortelius

slowburner

Riamfada wrote: »

You would have to first identify the exact coastline of the meso/neo periods to identify possible locations for coastal communities in local areas then start diving.

Or you could investigate the possibility that artefacts may have been hauled up in fishermen's trawls. Doesn't this happen fairly frequently in the North Sea?

Coriolanus

Wrong side, the continental shelf ends prior to that location. If you're going to have luck anywhere, it'd be in the Irish Sea. There's a lot more possibility of there having been settlements there during the period that it was land.

cfuserkildare

Neovore, on Google Maps the lighter the blue the shallower the sea, and the sea to the west of Ireland is much lighter hence shallower than it is in the Irish sea by as much as 150 feet so searching to the west to me seems more logical. Is it possible to get a professional opinion on this as you never know what could be found out there.

Atlantis just off the kerry coast?

Keep the posts coming.

Cheers.

cfuserkildare

Okay,
co-ordinates for what I think would be an ideal candidate for submerged land are as follows " 54.069059,-11.700439" (Google Maps)

Can anyone elaborate on what this is and why this type of feature has never before been considered?

Post em up.

Cheers.

slowburner

I'm not sure what you are seeing there. It just looks like an underwater mountain to me - am I missing something?

Hootanany

Link please

cfuserkildare

Okay,
1st Slowburner, the feature indicated is not a single item there are multiple features kinda similar to the Ortelius map just oriented differently.

2nd Hootanany, link to what?

Whippersnapper

The Petrified Forest

Submerged on Bray's North Beach lies the remains of a forest over 6,000 years old, it can only be seen at very low tides

http://braytowncouncil.ie/pages/bray-tourism-brochure/places-and-people-2.php

Also:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/25521009

Hootanany

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Okay,
1st Slowburner, the feature indicated is not a single item there are multiple features kinda similar to the Ortelius map just oriented differently.

2nd Hootanany, link to what?

To Google maps please

cfuserkildare

Hootanany,
Open Google home page, Click Maps button at top of page then enter the following co-ordinates <54.069059,-11.700439>.
Then see if they look like anything else.

Let us know.

Cheers.

slowburner

Hootanany wrote: »

To Google maps please

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.069059,-11.700439&z=16&t=h&hl=en

Here yah go
You might need to zoom out a bit.

chrissor

I recently did a mock research project for a module at university which went down quite well on the potential for underwater archaeology in the Irish Sea.

The University of Ulster and the Joint Irish Bathymetric Survey have done quite a lot of surveying on the Northern coast and this kind of landscape mapping would be useful elsewhere.

One of the links below may not actually be fully accessible to everyone but the rest should be.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2010.00272.x/full

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20559137

http://rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/AnnRep/95/AR-Geod95.html

http://www.jstor.org.eproxy.ucd.ie/stable/20567977

cfuserkildare

Okay,

I need more source material as that was good but not so easy getting to grips with.
Can we get more info as I was thinking a little deeper and a little further away ie 50-100 miles off shore.

slowburner

chrissor wrote: »

I recently did a mock research project for a module at university which went down quite well on the potential for underwater archaeology in the Irish Sea.

The University of Ulster and the Joint Irish Bathymetric Survey have done quite a lot of surveying on the Northern coast and this kind of landscape mapping would be useful elsewhere.

One of the links below may not actually be fully accessible to everyone but the rest should be.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2010.00272.x/full

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20559137

http://rses.anu.edu.au/geodynamics/AnnRep/95/AR-Geod95.html

http://www.jstor.org.eproxy.ucd.ie/stable/20567977

No luck with the last link for me anyway.

cfuserkildare

Yeah, last 1 is a UCD members only link.

Does anybody else have any more info or ideas in relation to this as it could be a huge subject in the near future, like the new finds off the west coast of India. Will post a link later.

Keep em comin'

Cheers.

Hootanany

Address:‎
53.412806,-13.276978


Looks like a submerged Island

cfuserkildare

Yeah kinda does if you look at it properly, especially the sort of bowl type area indicating volcano or similar feature.

Keep 'em comin folks.

slowburner

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Yeah, last 1 is a UCD members only link.

Does anybody else have any more info or ideas in relation to this as it could be a huge subject in the near future, like the new finds off the west coast of India. Will post a link later.

Keep em comin'

Cheers.

Don't forget the link

cfuserkildare

Okay, Finally found the link
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_a-civilisation-as-old-as-indus-valley_1547987

Check it out and leave comments.

Cheers.