look what i found on google earth.

Dudes i think we may need to find another beach soon

[Edited on 5-3-2008 by carlessd]

Yeah Dude,

Its been really exposed the last couple of weeks,

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You can always see it in certain areas of the beach.... Sometimes more than others. Although you don't normally see it much at the Ynyslas end of the each, but if you walk south along the beach at low tide there are some really good sections of it and as you can see from Dunk's photos some bits that look as if they were growing only yesterday.

Al.

how old are they.....does anyone know?

they actually have a muddy type texture, even though they still resemble tree stumps.

Don't really know how old they are, but Neil used to climb them as a boy!

Yep.. Although it is called a fossil forest the stumps aren't fossilised and aren't that old either... About 6500 years old I think.

When the forest was alive sea levels were lower, but as the ice from the last ice age melted and sea-levels rose they were flooded and preserved.

They were growing in a bed of peat which is also preserved and various bones and deer antlers have been found in the peat too... Including the bones of the now extinct Aurochs.

Al.

I cant see Dunk's photo on the thread, just the place markers.

After Dunk showed me his piccy's the other weekend I wandered down to the golf club end and took a few myself. Didnt show of as many roots as Dunks, but interesting all the same.

thats only because you were chasing me Dunk!