| The Scilly Isles have been inhabited since the | | | | some of the islands that make up the Scilly Isles. |
| Stone Age, and the people there have always | | | | There are even references to areas that no |
| lived a lifestyle of subsistence. What this means is | | | | longer exist, but are definitely from the isles in the |
| that the people there lived only on what the land | | | | Cornish language. |
| and the sea could provide. Luckily, being in the | | | | It's not just the rising sea levels that have caused |
| Atlantic Ocean, the sea could provide a lot, and | | | | this though. The entirety of the south of England |
| the island remained inhabited. It was likely | | | | is slowly sinking, and the difference this would |
| discovered by the Phoenicians and the Greeks, | | | | make could easily be seen in the time span that |
| who would have seen a completely different set | | | | Scilly displays. |
| of Isles to that which exist today. | | | | It's also worth noting that when the tide becomes |
| Before the rise of the seas, Scilly would have | | | | low enough, it's possible to walk between some |
| likely had one large island surrounded by numerous | | | | of the islands on causeways, and that numerous |
| smaller islands to form an archipelago. Evidence | | | | legends of a sunken land between Cornwall and |
| for this can be seen from the Romans describing | | | | the Isles of Scilly can be found in the Arthurian |
| Scilly as an insular, rather than a set of islands, | | | | legends, and in Breton, Cornish and Celtic folklore. |
| and remains of a prehistoric farm on Nornour, a | | | | It's unlikely that the rate of sinking will increase, |
| small, rocky outcrop in the Scilly Isles which is far | | | | but if it does, these islands could quickly find |
| too small for farming to have ever taken place | | | | themselves underwater. Some people even |
| there, unless the sea was much lower and more | | | | hypothesise that this transition could take place as |
| land was exposed. There are also ancient walls, | | | | quickly as overnight, though these are definitely in |
| the sort that would have been used to divide | | | | the minority. |
| fields, which can be seen at low tides just off | | | | |