Prehistoric forest arises in Cardigan Bay after storms strip away sand

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3. England didn't start writing its own records until the 6thc ...

... or thereabouts, after St. Augustine came in 597 to
convert the heathens and establish monasteries. Until
then the various languages were mostly spoken, and
there was no Latinized alphabet, only runes.

Even then, most literate scribes wrote in Latin. Old English
became more systematic for historical purposes during the
late 9thc when King Alfred sponsored translations and did
his own writing in OE. Then we start getting more consistent
histories such as Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English
Church, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, and of course the
translation of St. Jerome's Vulgate bible, along with the
great literature of poems and epics including Beowulf, still
mostly extant, and Waldere, mostly lost.