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For instance, the best recorded and defining event of "Dark Age" Britain was the devastation caused by debris from a comet, which struck in 562. Dr Victor Clube, Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University, estimates this as having been an equivalent of a scatter of at least 100 Hiroshima-size atomic bombs. Unsurprisingly, great tracts of land were rendered uninhabitable and populations were wiped out, giving rise to subsequent literature relating to "The Great Wastelands" of Arthurian Britain, the "Yellow Plague" and the "Coming Of The Dragon". Seen in this context, all are symbolic of the same cataclysmic event…

Where did it hit ?

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"Where did it hit ?"

Professor Mike Baillie believes a large portion of it fell into the Celtic Sea. (It may have been spread out over a large area though) The Dark Ages were worldwide. Astronomers Clube and Napier speak of it in their book Cosmic Winter.

Baillie believes that all the dragon imagry in Beuwolf is about this event.