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Natural PlacesSite Name: Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Country: Wales County: Ceredigion Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature

Map Ref: SN60429255
Latitude: 52.512914N  Longitude: 4.058269W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
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Orcinus visited The submerged forest and peat beds extend a little further north and can also be seen at low winter tides in Tywyn on the north side of the Dyfi Estuary

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Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by geoffstickland : these roots would have been several feet underground when the tree was in its prime (Vote or comment on this photo)
Preserved human footprints in Ceredigion.
Areas of peat with neolithic finds, including human and animal footprints fossilized in the now hardened peat surface, a line of post holes and scatters of burnt stone.

Coflein entry:
"The submerged forest extends along the beach for some 4.1 km at Borth and Ynyslas. The exposures comprise compacted peat and the stumps and branches of trees. Only small sections are exposed at any one time, most often after heavy winter storms when the covering of sand has been drawn down (e.g. extensive exposures late January - early March 2010).

Event and Histrorical Information:
A survey was undertaken in 1985 by Uinversity of Lampeter accompanied by an analysis of palaeobotanical aspects. The results suggest that the forest florished between 5,000 and 4,500 BP. From 4,800 - 4,000 BP, the area became waterlogged with peat growth, although oaks were growing until 3100 BP at the southern end. A hearth was dated by association with the peat to 4,000 BP. A number of finds have come from the submerged forest - a mesolithic composite tool of antler, two flints, the skeleton of an auroch and a piece of antler."

Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
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Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by Orcinus : Submerged forest peat beds exposed north of Borth at Tywyn (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by Orcinus : part of the submerged forest exposed at Tywyn, north of Borth (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by Orcinus : Exposed peat beds at Tywyn (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by geoffstickland : ancient root system revealed (Vote or comment on this photo)

Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by bat400 : Borth Beach Sub Tree, 23 March 2008. Photo by Author Badgernet. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Borth Sands Submerged Forest
Borth Sands Submerged Forest submitted by geoffstickland : ancient forest revealed at low tide

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Re: Borth Sands Submerged Forest Exposed by Storm Francis by AngieLake on Friday, 11 September 2020
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Just noticed this story in the Daily Mail online:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8718291/Storm-Francis-uncovers-mythical-Sunken-Kingdom-Wales.html

Some good photos and a map. It's a new site not too far from Borth:

"Petrified woodland remains have been previously found on the beaches at the Welsh town of Borth
But Storm Francis revealed previously unknown ancient trees 13 miles (21km) south in Llanrhystud"
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Re: Borth Sands 4000 yr old Red Deer Skull & Antlers by AngieLake on Friday, 29 April 2016
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Very interesting article in D.Mail online today, with stunning photos of the submerged forest on Borth Sands, where 4000 yr old Red Deer antlers have recently been uncovered.
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"The 4ft-wide antlers belonged to a giant stag which roamed the forest during the Bronze Age, and were laid bare by strong tides on the Cardigan Bay coastline."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3566100/Deer-skull-antlers-4-000-YEARS-old-walkers-beach-storms-uncovered-ancient-forest.html#ixzz47FTqCLBY

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Re: Borth Sands Submerged Forest by Andy B on Wednesday, 06 April 2016
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Forests drowned in ancient memory
Borth, Ceredigion The stumps rise from clots of dark peat lying on boulder-clay and held together by a lattice of blanched roots

Small waves hissed into the pebbled shore, clacked stone against stone as I made my way to the drowned forest. One of many around the coasts of Wales (a particularly fine example lies just beyond the east end of Rhyl’s promenade), that at Borth has become more prominent since storms in 2014 scoured away covering sand, which in time will conceal it again.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/02/country-diary-forests-drowned-ancient-memory
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Ancient footprints found in peat at Borth beach by bat400 on Monday, 03 December 2012
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Archaeologists are racing to record and excavate the find in peat at Borth, which gives a snapshot of a time when the shore lay further west. The team believes the footprints could be 3,000 to 4,000 years old. Staff and students from the University of Wales Trinity St David are carrying out the work.

As well as the footprints, a line of post holes has been found, which could have been a causeway. They lie across an area that would have been salt marsh when the footprints were made.

The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments is providing survey support, mapping the extent of the peat and other exposed features.

Submerged forests have been found further north on the beach and nearby in the past. Dr Martin Bates is one of the archaeologists leading the excavation team, and it was his father, retired geologist Denis Bates, who discovered the footprints last month.

Dr Bates told BBC Wales' news website: "My father has had an interest in submerged forests for many years. He was down in February as this part of the beach was very clear.
"For various reasons the patterns of sand movement have been temporarily altered and it means this area of beach has been stripped of sand.

"He noticed the marks and told me they didn't look natural."

He estimates they have a window of a few months to log the discoveries and take samples away for environmental testing before the sands shift again and cover the footprints up.

"What we have never had before is documented evidence of human habitation."

Dr Bates added that there were a range of footprints discovered, including cattle, sheep or goat and possibly a bear. However the one which resonates with him is a print which belonged to a young child.

"We have got a footprint of a four-year-old's foot where we can see the toes and everything. I can stand where this child was standing about 4,000 years ago and even though we would have been seeing different things, the intimacy of that is quite special."

Work in previous years on submerged forests found on the area to the north has established that a forest was growing in the area between 3000 and 2500 BC.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see http://www.bbc.co.uk.
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Re: Borth Sands Submerged Forest by bat400 on Monday, 03 December 2012
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In spring 2012 archaeologists had a short window of opportunity to record, excavate and carry out palaeo-environemntal sampling of a large expanse of peat recently exposed beneath the sands on the beach. The peat together with a number of tree stumps and branches, provided a glimpse at the earlier Prehistoric environment, a time when the sea shore lay further west and this was an area of salt marsh. Of particular interest are the series of human and animal footprints fossilized in the now hardened peat surface, a line of post holes perhaps part of a causeway that once crossed the marsh.

The emergency archaeological work was carried out by staff and students of the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity St David. The Royal Commission has provided survey support, mapping the extents of the peat and other exposed features.

Thanks to coldrum for this link. Read more at Heritage of Wales News
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