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.