17/09/2026
Only visible at low tide. Mainly around the Golf Club and YHA area towards Borth…..have you been to see it yet?
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Borth Beach in Wales is home to a remarkable ancient submerged forest, its preserved tree stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel emerging from the sand at low tide, a haunting reminder of woodland that once stood here around 5,000 years ago.
The forest flourished until rising sea levels eventually swallowed it, with the acidic peat that covered the trees depriving them of oxygen and preserving them remarkably well for thousands of years.
Excavations at the site have uncovered a Mesolithic tool, flints, human and animal footprints, and even the skeleton of an auroch, an ancient ancestor of modern cattle, alongside scattered remains of prehistoric hearths.
The forest is also steeped in myth, long linked to the legendary sunken kingdom of Cantre'r Gwaelod, said to lie beneath Cardigan Bay after a watchman failed to shut the town gates, a tale first recorded in the 13th century Black Book of Carmarthen.