NPRN417719
Map ReferenceSN20NW
Grid ReferenceSN2019507418
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityEglwyscummin
Type Of SiteSUBMERGED FOREST
PeriodMesolithic
DescriptionAn extensive area of submerged forest from which has been radiocarbon 14 dates of 5300+/-80BP, 4640+/-60BP (CAR-1117, CAR-1116) have been recovered (calibrated 4330-3970BC, 3650-3100BC). In the early part of the 20th century, lithics of corresponding date were also recovered by A L Leach. An exposure of the forest was caught on camera by the Royal Commission's aerial photographer, Toby Driver, on 20 June 2008.
Sources include:
Bell, M, 2007, Prehistoric Coastal Communities: The Mesolithic in Western Britain, CBA Research Report 149, pg2
Leach, A L, 1913, Stone implements from soil drifts and chipping floors etc, in South Pembrokeshire, Archaeological Cambrensis LXVIII, 391-2
Leach, A L, 1918, Flint working sites on the submerged land (submereged forest) bordering the Pembrokeshire coast, Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 29, 46-67.
Lewis, M P, 1992, The Prehistory of Coastal Southwest Wales 7500-3600 BP: an interdisciplianry palaeoenvironmental and archaeological investigation, unpublished PhD thesis, Dept of Archaeology, University of Lampeter
North, F J, 1955, The Evolution of the Bristol Channel, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
RCAHMW, December 2012.