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ID:SDV361489
Title:The Forest Underneath the Golden Sands
Originator:WESTERN TIMES
Date:1984
Summary:Heavy storms have exposed ancient animal bones and flints used by the early North Devonians on Westward Ho! Beach. The golden sands have been stripped by freak winter gales to reveal a sumbmerged primeval forest. Archaeologists have found remains dating back to the mesolithic Age of 6500 BC to 4500 BC.

Associated Monuments (1)

MDV14854Shell Middens at Westward Ho! (Monument)