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NEW Report- Mesolithic Occupation at Bouldnor Cliff and the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of the Solent
This report records the events that led to the discovery of this internationally important site, the methods used to recover the material, and the detailed assessment of the archaeological artefacts.
Edited by; Garry Momber, David Tomalin, Rob Scaife, Julie Satchell and Jan Gillespie. 
At the start of the Mesolithic period, some 8000 years ago, sea levels in the North Sea and the English Channel were some 30 to 40m lower than those of today – Britain was a peninsula of northern Europe. Over the past few decades work by the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology has slowly been unearthing a buried archaeological landscape in the Western Solent