Forests drowned in ancient memory

Borth, Ceredigion The stumps rise from clots of dark peat lying on boulder-clay and held together by a lattice of blanched roots

Small waves hissed into the pebbled shore, clacked stone against stone as I made my way to the drowned forest. One of many around the coasts of Wales (a particularly fine example lies just beyond the east end of Rhyl's promenade), that at Borth has become more prominent since storms in 2014 scoured away covering sand, which in time will conceal it again.