5th June 2019 - Wales in the Wet and Cantre Gwaelog

Thought for the day :"I'm making a model of Mount Everest, not to scale, just to look at!"

A day out at Kidwelly with friends from Germany - well it rained a little

and in other Welsh News..

Here is a link to Cantre'r Gwaelog...  The Sunken Forest ..

Stretching between two and three miles along the villages of Ynyslas and Borth, samples taken from the submerged forest suggested the trees flourished between 5,000 and 4,500 years ago.

So far, excavation work on the site has found a Mesolithic tool, flints and a skeleton of an auroch, an ancestor to domestic cattle, found by a local butcher in the 1960s.

Human and animal footprints have also been unearthed, along with scatterings of burnt stones from ancient hearths.

Despite the unrelenting winds, for thousands of years the remnants of the forest have remained preserved thanks to the acidic peat that covered them and deprived them of oxygen - leading to a series of discoveries at the turn of the decade.

The sight this week may be partly due (among other reasons) to the installation of sea defences in Borth built in 2012.
As well as protecting the village from the crashing waves, the scheme will temporarily change the continuous northerly movement and supply of sands, pebbles, and stones which have previously hidden the trees from view.
Professor Hubbard said: "The photo is taken to the north end towards Ynyslas and the estuary towards Aberdyfi. It has been exposed in the past but this looks more than I have seen.

"More exposure to the north makes me think it is likely to do with the sand and pebbles that have been captured by the break-water.
"To me the north end is being starved of material. That means the sea defences are catching material to protect the village.
"It's still adjusting. This will just take some time to gradually get to the shape it's happy with."

It is thought to have been first mentioned in the 750-year-old Black Book of Carmarthen, written in 1250, which includes a poem about Cantre’r Gwaelod called Boddi Maes Gwyddno – The Drowning of the Land of Gwyddno.

So ...
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