A DETERMINED town councillor is keen to preserve some uncovered maritime equipment as a celebration of the area’s relationship with the sea.

Cllr Hilary Rowlands, who sits on Tywyn Town Council, was walking her dog when she came across two huge metal anchors.

Although she does not know the history of the pieces, she feels the items are worth exploring and maintaining as they are items of interest, perhaps even from the “Armada”.

She has called on her fellow councillors to save the items before they are once again lost to the sea.

“I had the pleasure of a solitary walk with the dogs for a beach comb in perfect peace recently and discovered not one, but two anchors in the sand at the Bailey Beach,” she said, in an open letter to the council and the Cambrian News.

“I don’t know if any of you are aware that they are here, but I wish to draw your attention to these finest preserved pieces of our local history.

“Outside the institute in Aberdyfi is a ship anchor, a statue of heritage of past trading ships and the making of our coastal towns.

“Please, I urge you, don’t let this one that’s shown itself in full be buried back under the sand?

“This anchor should surely become a monument down the seafront in Tywyn, imagine the history of possibly 200 years that’s been brought into the open with it.

“It won’t need food or water, just a little information of where it may have come from, or at least thoughts to give to the minds of those who come and admire it?”

The council will have to act quickly if it hopes to save the quirky piece of metallic memorabilia.

“The powers of nature and the tides have shifted the sand and brought this back to us and I think perhaps it should be raised like the one found in the Dyfi Estuary, a commemorative piece of times passed,” continued Cllr Rowlands.

“Was it a British ship that ran aground, or the Armada?

“The possibilities are endless but we surely shouldn’t just let it disappear by the next storm, and the further shifting of the sand and pebble banks?

“Can it be salvaged? It’s not that it hasn’t been done before.”