Sunken Forests

Cardigan Bay, Ceredigion and Turvin Moor, Yorkshire

4000 years ago trees buried in the peat by a changing climate

Oak Pine Alder Willow and Birch stumps linked and lost  

 

Cantre’r Gwaelod in folklore tells of a Welsh Atlantis flooded 

Gates were left open drowning the forest, now lost in time

A wild wood forgotten, secrets safe under the sea

 

The Yorkshire site on higher boggy ground

Its history exposed by turbulent warm air during periods of drought

Stumps of pine appear, some with bark intact, resin scenting the wind

 

The Welsh forest uncovered by recent winter storms

Hard Oak and Alder roots forming a wooden sea floor

Just for a few days before the sand returned

 

Graham Ramsden

 

 

Can- tre –Gwalod