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Offshore windfarms will expand significantly over the next decades as nations adopt clean-energy strategies. Such initiatives are a welcome response to climate change, and the UK aims to power all homes using offshore wind by 2030. The scale and rapidity of this development is unprecedented. The need for developers to work with stakeholders to protect the marine environment has never been greater . The preservation and protection of marine heritage is an important aspect of development, and many may not realise the impact of proposed developments, particularly upon prehistoric Underwater Cultural Heritage in areas such as the southern North Sea, which contains Europe’s largest and best-preserved prehistoric landscape, “Doggerland”. Over the last twenty years, european research has begun to reveal a vast prehistoric landscape beneath the North Sea, lost to sea level rise after the last Ice Age. Technological developments mean we can now trace its shorelines, rivers, lakes and valleys. Similar landscapes exist on other continental shelves, but Doggerland is the most extensively studied of anywhere in the world. However, significant gaps remain in our knowledge. Whilst we know much about the physical landscape of Doggerland, no evidence of settlement or ‘in situ’ activity, that is, archaeology in its original location, is known from the offshore zone of the North Sea, beyond the limit of Territorial waters. Our understanding of the communities who lived there is little better than it was over a century ago. Ultimately, the most significant staging ground for the last hunter-gatherers of Northwest Europe remains archaeological “terra incognita”. Many countries around the North Sea are beginning to appreciate the importance of thisarea and providing curatorial protocols to assist developers is a wonderful opportunity for developers and heritage stakeholders to work together to ensure that we secure our energy supplies and combat climate change, but also ensure that invaluable data generated during development supports efforts to preserve and understand this exceptional landscape. Growth in offshore development gives researchers, stakeholders and national curators the opportunity to work together to provide mitigation strategies for sustainable heritage practices that may help locate the missing evidence of human occupation of Doggerland, while also assisting green development.Detailed mapping of Doggerland using remote sensing data has reached a point where archaeologists may begin to identify areas where accessible prehistoric land surfaces exist beneath the sea. In these areas targeted archaeological prospection may be carried out successfully. Using data provided by our industry partners, “Taken at the Flood” will use a a variety of tested and new methods to recover archaeological, environmental and sedimentological data, and provide the first evidence for in-situ, archaeological settlement in the deeper waters of the offshore zone.