2014年8月13日 · At low tide in the bucolic Welsh coastal village of Borth, what appear to be rocks are revealed on the beach. But these seemingly standard stones are actually the remains of a petrified forest.

2024年2月18日 · One of the most interesting parts of Borth is the underwater petrified forest. When the tide goes out, the stumps of ancient trees are visible from the beach. They were discovered quite recently, during the first phase of a coastal protection scheme; Radiocarbon dating has revealed that this ancient forest dates back to 1500 BC.

2020年9月15日 · Storm Francis uncovered more petrified tree stumps in Wales' Cardigan Bay, 15 miles south of the sunken forest in Borth. Courtesy of the Ceredigion Historical Society. Storm Francis...

2019年5月26日 · 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.

2019年5月25日 · The petrified trees lie between Ynyslas and Borth in Ceredigion county. The forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as …

2022年10月30日 · Perhaps the most famous of Wales’ prehistoric sunken forest is at Borth, Ceredigion. In the wake of Storm Hannah in 2019, it too re-emerged, so reawakening the legend of the lost kingdom of...

2014年2月26日 · Recent storms that battered the coast of Wales stripped away sand to reveal an ancient forest dating to the Bronze Age, 6,000 years ago. Are the petrified trees of Borth part …

2024年8月7日 · Borth beach on the mid-Wales coast carries a secret under its sand and shingle shoreline that only reveals itself at low tide. An ancient forest once grew here and now the vestiges of its trees show themselves when the tide retreats, like messengers from the past.

THE PETRIFIED FOREST & THE LEGEND OF CANTRE'R' GWAELOD An ancient submerged forest is visible at certain times of the year at low tide along the stretch of shore.

2019年5月22日 · A prehistoric forest which was buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago and inspired a local legend has been uncovered on a Welsh beach.