Ancient Stump

ANCIENT STUMP 

BACK TO THE DAWN OF THE BRONZE AGE! 

This root mass was one of many buried 
beneath the breaches along the Oregon Coast 
between Newport and Neskowin. It once 
supported a spruce tree, which was buried 
when the land suddenly dropped into the sea. 
It remained preserved beneath the sand for 
4,100 years before surfacing and breaking free 
in 1998. Violent winter storms washed it into 
the mouth of Spencer Creek in 1999.