Re: Keeping your feet dry, 8,000BC
Posted: 6:57 pm
That's one possibility and we do know that the body that was buried at Stonehenge was supposed to have been born in Switzerland or somewhere in that vicinity.
But another possibility is different way. Goseck is on the river Saale which leads to the Elbe and into the North Sea by Cuxhaven after passing Hamburg.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/gos ... ew/google/
If we look at the Doggerland map we can see that there is a lake in the south just scraping the southern edge of Dogger Bank. If you enlarge that picture you can see a river coming from the Wash into the western side of the lake and another river running up to Cuxhaven and beyond, in other words the Elbe. And the river coming from and back into the Wash is the Ouse.
That would have been another possibility. Take the Ouse to the Wash, turn right to the Dogger lake or whatever it's called, carry on to Hamburg and keep on sailing till you reach the Saale which will drop you off at the doorstep. You have reached your destination.
In my life as a ships' chandler we used to get small european barges, German, Danish and even Dutch sneaking up the river to unload whatever they had brought. They looked strange sitting low down in the water next to big ocean going vessels but if they've been doing this kind of thing since the ice age I doubt if they'll be worried.