{"id":24403,"date":"2014-02-23T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24403"},"modified":"2017-07-09T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:18:26","slug":"winter-storms-uncover-a-welsh-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/23\/winter-storms-uncover-a-welsh-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storms uncover a “Welsh Atlantis”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A story in the Express<\/em><\/a> about waves from recent storms having uncovered a previously unknown ancient forest on the shores of Cardigan Bay:<\/p>\n

Gales stripped the sand from a beach at Borth in Ceredigion, West Wales, revealing the remains of a 6,000-year-old forest.<\/p>\n

A picture of the same spot taken before the storms shows a strip of pristine sand.<\/p>\n

The ancient oaks and pines date back to the Bronze Age. <\/p>\n

They were discovered by Deanna Groom and Ross Cook from the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.<\/p>\n

Miss Groom, a maritime archeologist said: “The site around Borth is one where if there\u2019s a bad storm and it gets battered, you know there\u2019s a good chance something will be uncovered as the peat gets washed away. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s regularly monitored and that\u2019s why we went to have a look there again now to see if anything new had emerged.”<\/p>\n

The ancient remains are said by some to be the origins of the legend of Cantre’r Gwaelod<\/em>, a mythical kingdom now submerged under the waters of Cardigan Bay.<\/p>\n

It has been described as a “Welsh Atlantis” and has featured in folklore, literature and song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Elizabeth for the link.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Elizabeth also sent a link that shows that ancient oak stumps aren’t the only things being uncovered by the waves<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The latest hazard caused by this winter\u2019s devastating storms and floods has been revealed by police — unexploded bombs.<\/p>\n

The storms that have ravaged and reshaped parts of the British coastline have led to the discovery of wartime shells long-buried on beaches.<\/p>\n

There are also fears that flooding along the Thames will erode riverbanks, leading to the discovery of bombs dropped on the area by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.<\/p>\n

Police say that high tides and huge waves have either exposed devices or brought them closer to the surface.<\/p>\n

Further storms and flooding are expected today as a new front moves in from the Atlantic. The Met Office has issued three severe rain warnings and gusts of wind are expected to reach 70mph.<\/p>\n

The Environment Agency also still has 48 severe flood warnings issued across the UK following what the Met Office has described as the wettest winter on record.<\/p>\n

Now walkers are being urged not to touch unidentified metal objects but to alert police to their finds instead.<\/p>\n

In South West England and West Wales, which bore the brunt of the storms, six devices have been handled by bomb disposal units in six weeks.<\/p>\n

The Navy\u2019s Southern Diving Group said it had received a 20 per cent increase in reports of unexploded bombs since January.<\/p>\n

A 100lb Mk XIX Second World War British anti-submarine mine was found by surfers at Watwick Bay, Haverfordwest, while a rare First World War German mine surfaced on a beach near the popular Cornish resort of Newquay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A story in the Express about waves from recent storms having uncovered a previously unknown ancient forest on the shores of Cardigan Bay: Gales stripped the sand from a beach at Borth in Ceredigion, West Wales, revealing the remains of a 6,000-year-old forest. A picture of the same spot taken before the storms shows a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65,7],"tags":[288,1139,206,737],"class_list":["post-24403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-environment","category-history","tag-archaeology","tag-bronzeage","tag-severeweather","tag-wales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6lB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24406,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24403\/revisions\/24406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}