Dispatches · Heritage

News from
the North Sea

Progress reports, precedents, and perspectives from the project to rebuild Doggerland, collected here as the vision moves from map to water.

A hand working a brush across an encrusted lead ingot, the stamped maker's mark showing through the marine growth

22 August 2026Heritage

Three Ingots in the Hornsea Field

A bomb survey for Ørsted's Hornsea 3 wind farm found an unrecorded 17th-century wreck 120 km off Norfolk, carrying English lead for the Netherlands. Offshore construction is now this sea's most productive archaeology, and it is next door to us.

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Map of Doggerland's changing coastline from 16,000 BCE to the present day

31 July 2026Heritage

The Colinda Point

In 1931 a Norfolk trawler hauled up a Mesolithic harpoon from the open sea. Archaeology magazine's letter from Doggerland traces how that find became a mapped, 44,000 km² drowned world: the landscape our islands will stand on.

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