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Hi all! Hope you're having a pleasant New Year's Eve.

I'm pondering whether or not to add a site to TMA. It's a site local to me, and it's bit unusual because it's a submerged forest. It's not fossilised, but preserved under the sea bed. At low tide the tree stumps can be seen on the beach.

Radio Carbon Dating gives the age of the forest as between 3500 and 1500 BCE, so it fits in to the timescale covered by TMA. The question is, how relevant is it?

Here is some on-line information...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/coast/pages/5.shtml

Let me know what you think folks.

K x

I would imagine the official line will be that if there is a TMA site close by already add the reference as a miscellaneous posting to that, as bearing on the landscape setting.

Howdo Mr K.
Dunno about the pleasant New Year bit, what with being stuck on the briney sea bobbing around without so much as a barmaids apron to sniff. I hope yours is going better than mine.
As for submerged forests, I sort of figure that many of us are as much into ancient landscapes as we are into the monuments themselves, so what you've got there is a crackin' prehistoric landscapes, albeit covered in water.
I sneaked this one in a while back,
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3139
cheers and a Happy New Year to you all
fitz

Submerged forests or general submerged sites?
With the recent interest in Doggerland and underwater surveys of the North Sea, Solent and elsewhere, it is expected that British submarine archaeology is the "next big thing". Drowned forests are wonderfully romantic and need plotting. There are probably more than we assume. Then there are those fugitive Mesolithic footprints that can be seen for a short while off the Formby shore and elsewhere. Very many drowned hut circles and tombs lie within the central flooded zone of the Isles of Scilly too - Lyonesse.

On the negative side - be prepared for silly stuff on Atlantis and Lemuria.

I'm surrounded by bits of bog oak, as the bits of fossilised wood are known, and a meaningless occupation is to search them for signs of tool mark and then to decide what the tool looked like and how it was being used. The bits of ancient forest, once dried out completely, make excellent kindling sticks for 'that special fire'.

Several months ago, whilst in the fabulous region of Cornwall, there was a very low tide.
So a group of My friends and I headed for Penzance beach, apparently this was all forest at one time, all around St Michaels Mount.
All the others were zipping around with waterproof metal detectors, I did My own thing.
They found cannon balls, and musket balls, deep in the clib, but I was wading deeper and deeper, walking around in a circluler way.
As it is not easy to stay upright in the slippy seaweed, I wandered off along to the footpath across to St Michaels mount, Two things attracted Myself and My rods.
The first was the rock outcrop between the land and the island. this is a very powerfull spot.
The other was a point along the pathway, it looks as if a cross or something was on it at some time, again for good reason.
Standing at the top of the Mount, and after doing My own eccentric wanderings around it, several things are clear.
What a spot, mega power, in the centre of the chapel, wow.
The whole place has been built to match the dowsable fields, every last inch.
But it was the rock outcrops that really made Me think.
If this was land several thousand Years ago, the action of the seas has erroded the rocks in circuler fashion, in alignment with what I detect.
Now I realise the first thing that would be argued , is that it would because thats how the rocks were deposited by volcanos etc.
That would be fact, but what if the lines have more influence than even I thought ?
Over ,not only the sea, but the weather patterns etc ?
K.

Can I add this one?

http://www.tomfourwinds.com/tanks/dolmen1.jpg
http://www.tomfourwinds.com/tanks/dolmen2.jpg

It had to happen sooner or later. I've tried to avoid doing it ... honest! :-)

B'Jesus!

When I said, "let me know what you think folks", I meant in the context of my submerged forest! I wasn't expecting a drunken stream of consciousness (naive of me in hindsight).

You're all a bunch of self obsessed lunatics! Go to your bedrooms and think about what you done!

Nos da!