8,100 yr old drowned landscape - BCV - Aug '21

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Bouldnor Cliff on the north-west coast of the Isle of Wight is a series of sites dated to c. 8,100 BP that form part of a well preserved Mesolithic landscape and which represent the only confirmed submerged Mesolithic site in the UK.

Bouldnor Cliff Site V (BC-V) consists of primarily of worked timbers at numerous locations along this submerged cliff edge, forming apparent structures such as platforms or trackways, as well as evidence of activites including string formed from twisted plant fibres, concentrations of burnt flint and wood chips, as well as some faunal remains including possible auroch bones.

This survey was captured in one dive in early August 2021. A photogrammetric model was developed in Agisoft Metashape from 6,500 images aquired using two Nikon D850 cameras with ambient lighting in 50 minutes underwater. The resulting model was post-processed in ZBrush and Blender.

The combined length of the tapes is 55m and the black/yellow scale bar is 1m. The average site depth was 11m.