Following last week's photos of the 'mystery wreckage' uncovered on Monkstone Beach in the recent storms, Observer readers have been in contact to say that it seems the craft has indeed been buried under the sands for a number of years.

Visitors to Monkstone Beach have been trying to identify the origins of the wrecked steel craft that appeared ashore recently.

Sandra Sutton, of Saundersfoot, who saw the article in last Friday's issue, said that she remembers seeing the craft in almost the same spot when she was around seven years of age and used to holiday in the resort.

"That was at least 63 years ago and it hasn't moved much since, but this is the first time that the whole of the craft seems to have been uncovered in some time, as all those years ago it was mostly buried in the sand," she explained.

Cedric Morgan, of Saundersfoot's Westfield Road, told the Observer that he thought the craft was used as lifesaving gear during the war.

However, Gary Davies, of the Hean Castle Estate, told us that he was "90 per cent certain" that the object was once a 'beetle pontoon' that would have floated in the water to connect the pier head to the steel roadways.

"There's a certain shape to it that matches this object and it would have had to have been solid steel to carry the weight of the lorries," he remarked.