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The end of the last ice
age, around 12,000 years ago, was characterised by a
final cold phase called the Younger
Dryas. Scandinavia was still mostly covered in ice, and
across Europe the mountains had many more, and larger,
glaciers than today. There was a substantial icefield in the
west of Scotland and glaciers could be found on many
mountains across the British Isles.
Not surprisingly,
the climate was colder back then, especially in winter, with
temperatures in the UK getting down to -30°C or lower.
Despite these freezing ice-age winters, differences in the
Earth’s orbit around the Sun meant the summers were
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