massive tidal wave that swept across the North Sea c. 5800 BCGiant wave hit ancient ScotlandA giant wave flooded Scotland about 7,000 years ago, a scientist revealed on Friday. The tsunami left a trail of destruction along what is now the eastern coast of the country. Scientists believe a landslide on the ocean floor off Storegga, south-west Norway, triggered the wave. Speaking at the British Association Festival of Science in Glasgow, Professor David Smith said a tsunami could strike again in the area but the probability was extremely unlikely. Radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from the coastline of eastern Scotland put the date of the event at about 5,800 BC. At the time, Britain was joined to mainland Europe by a land bridge. ..."It looks as if those people were happily sitting in their camp when this wave from the sea hit the camp," Professor Smith of the department of Geography at Coventry University told BBC News Online.
by Helen Briggs
Friday, September 7, 2001
BBC News Online
This story says the land bridge existed till 5000 or 6000 BC. The original story says it was gone before there were humans. Glad they have gotten it so exactly.