NOTES ON A SUBMERGED FOREST 
OFF CARDURNOCK ON THE SOLWAY; AND ON 
THE DESTRUCTION OF SKINBURNESS BY THE SEA 
ABOUT THE YEAR 1305. 
BY Si) Vi eH OMe MAES yn GS: 
(Read at the Maryport Annual Meeting.) 
SoME years ago, on beginning work on the Geological Survey in 
north-west Cumberland, I heard that traces of what seemed to be 
a submerged forest were, or had lately been, visible off Cardurnock, 
at the west end of the Bowness peninsula. On visiting that place, 
however, a year or two afterwards, nothing could be seen on the 
broad expanse of Cardurnock Flatts but sand and boulders. As 
the locality is not easily accessible either from Wigton or Carlisle, 
and my visit had been made under most favourable conditions as 
regards tide, I felt that my chief hopes of information lay in a 
possible change in the channels of the estuary, and in the memories 
of the older inhabitants of the neighbourhood. But I thought 
little more of the matter till my interest in it was revived by a 
sight, last year, of the remains of the submerged forest at St. Bees. 
Having neglected, however, to make enquiries about the Cardur- 
nock Forest before leaving Cumberland, I wrote last winter to Mr. 
R. B. Brockbank, the first discoverer of the Lias in Cumberland, 
(from whom I had already received assistance more than once,) 
asking if he knew anything about the Cardurnock forest, and would 
help me by making enquiries about it. Mr. Brockbank very kindly 
took the matter in hand, and the following is the result of his 
enquiries. 
