The other tree stump that emerged from the sea this week at Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire.pic.twitter.com/aDSpz3ZcO3
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The other tree stump that emerged from the sea this week at Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire.pic.twitter.com/aDSpz3ZcO3
Top view of the first submerged prehistoric tree stump exposed at Trusthorpe, showing its tree rings.pic.twitter.com/Si1hNBdHN8
In previous years, such exceptionally low tides have revealed far more of the submerged prehistoric forest at Mablethorpe/Trusthorpe, as can be seen in these pictures from 1984, and beach replenishment at least partly to blame, burying the trees in sand: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29450962@N08/5008789677/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/u8X7P7N3IO
Beach replenishment isn't the whole story, however—it also seems that the prehistoric submerged forest has been subject to significant erosion since the 18th century, when low tides on the Lincolnshire coast would reveal sections a mile wide! Down to 150 yards wide by the 1920s…pic.twitter.com/9PVfyLiOAP
The submerged prehistoric forest on Cleethorpes beach is a little later in date—probably belonging to the Late Neolithic—and rather more of it can currently be seen...pic.twitter.com/cTs1NYeZVe
Another tree trunk from the Late Neolithic drowned forest on Cleethorpes beach, Lincolnshire.pic.twitter.com/4BTqrPIYMM
Another Late Neolithic tree stump from the submerged prehistoric forest on Cleethorpes beach.pic.twitter.com/VoQr9M9T8Z
A piece of the Bronze Age submerged forest exposed at Portreath, Cornwall, in 1976 and now in @Cornwall_Museum :)pic.twitter.com/aUtCBeauTl
A pine cone from the drowned forest of Mount's Bay, Cornwall; washed out of the peat at Wherry Beach near Penzance and c. 4250 years old.pic.twitter.com/2wzko87SAC
It really is! Sadly didn't spot any of these on my recent sighting of Lincolnshire's drowned forest....
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