Sunderland, submerged forest

HER Number

13594

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, submerged forest

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Monument <By Form>

Site Type: Broad

Natural Feature

Site Type: Specific

Submarine Forest

General Period

PREHISTORIC

Specific Period

Prehistoric -1,000 000 to 43

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Submerged forest bed occasionally seem off the Durham coast

Easting

441223

Northing

555339

Grid Reference

NZ441223555339

Sources

English Heritage Intertidal and Coastal Peat Database, Record ID 607; A. Fowler, 1936, Geology of Country around Rothbury, Amble and Ashington in Memoir of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, p 135