Source: The Guardian

Previously a landscape of peatlands, oak, alder and birch, rising sea levels, a changing climate, and increasing layers of peat suffocated the forest roughly 4,500 years ago, stopping tree growth. However, the acidity of the peatlands preserved and fossilized the tree stumps, creating an eerie landscape revealed only when extreme storms arise in the area.

These stumps are only exposed during particularly violent storm surges, and will become covered by sand once tides return to normal.