North Cornwall - Geology
Prehistoric Forest - Portreath - (S15)
About 4000 years ago the sea level rose around the British Coast, submerging woodland between 4,000 and 6,000-years-old.
Every few years, heavy seas during the Autumn and Winter gales lower the sand level and as on the beach
at Portreath reveal the submerged forest, with its tree stumps , trunks, branches , ...
embedded in a layer of black peat. The fossil forest has been seen in the past at Daymer Bay, Fowey, Hayle Estuary, Helford river, Looe,
Mounts Bay, Perranporth, Porthleven.
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Location - Portreath is in Gallery 15
Ref: 2768.9
Date: 22/01/2016
Location: SW 653 454