8,000 year old footprints preserved on Welsh beach?
Tue, 2007-02-13 17:38 — Morbus Iff
Steve Maitland Thomas was walking on Kenfig Beach, Porthcawl, with his friend John Blundell, when they found a number of ancient size-eight footprints ... "We found the first on January 19, the day after storms had whipped up the sand revealing the bedrock below. The peat beds were formed from the floor of a vast forest, which once stretched right across the valley which now forms the Bristol Channel, until sea levels rose approximately 8,000 years ago."
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I was fascinated to read the full article, as there are relatively few sites of prehistoric human tracks across the world. When I read the report on the discovery published at www.ggat.org.uk, I was initially dismayed by the recommendation that the footprints should be allowed to disintegrate with no attempt at preservation. I have now been told that there are plans to make a cast of the footprints for display locally, which is great news for us and our descendants.
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