Ancient footprints found on Welsh beach

IC Wales ^ | Februrary 2, 2007 | Sally Williams, Western Mail

[aculeus]

A BEACHCOMBER claims he has found ancient human footprints dating back 8,000 years, embedded in an ancient Welsh peat bed.

Steve Maitland Thomas was walking on Kenfig Beach, Porthcawl, with his friend John Blundell, when they found a number of ancient size-eight footprints.

He said, "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."

The next day they found about 10 more footprints, going in both directions, along with smaller ones that could have been made by a child.

"The prints are deeply impressed into the surface, which illustrates their antiquity as the peat beds are now almost rock-hard, having been under tons of sand for the last 6,000 years.

"They have only recently been revealed and will be covered with sand again - hopefully - within the next month or so."

[machogirl]

global warming? before cars?

[Charles Henrickson]

Footprints in the Peat Bed.

[Doogle]

Kenfig Beach, Porthcawl a popular vacation spot for Helen Thomas when she was a teenager.

[Ditter]

Why would they want them covered with sand and not removed to the safety of a museum?

[Charles Henrickson]

This bears re-peating.

[Charles Henrickson]

Old stuff ping.

[machogirl]

please, no picture

[Nathan Zachary]

"Footprints in the Peat Bed."

That's like trying to leave footprints on a roll of carpet underlay- not-likely. You can loose an entire tractor in that stuff, and not find it's 'footprints'. Also not something anyone- even 8,000 years ago- would walk through, and have your 'kids' (must have been democrats) playing in. It's a bog you could die by drowning in a pothole. (and you wouldn't leave a footprint)

[Bigg Red]

This bears re-peating.

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Well, it left an impression on me, but I'll try not to get bogged down in the details.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Probably some people from my Dad's side of the family...

[squarebarb]

They were probably on the run --- welshing on a debt....

[nuconvert]

no pictures?

[Ditter]

Aren't you cute! ;9)

[Larry Lucido]

Damn, and I just mopped that beach, too.

[Charles Henrickson]

they found a number of ancient size-eight footprints.

Check the shoe size of those guys who did the crop circles.

[devolve]

[HereInTheHeartland]

" until sea levels rose approximately 8,000 years ago."

Impossible.
Sea levels didn't rise until Western culture came on the scene.

[Young Werther]

Archeologists were able to prepare a preliminary pictoral presentation based on the footprints.

Yay, forensics!

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/images/footprints.jpg

[MeekOneGOP]

hahahaaa!

Wow! Forensic Science really HAS come a LOOOoonnng way, baby !! :^D

[JRios1968]

That's just the peats

[popdonnelly]

And I thought that was just a Racquel Welch movie!

[CholeraJoe]

GGG?

[deathrace2000]

...MADE QUITE AN IMPRESSION ON ME!

[Young Werther]

Clan of the Cave Bear and Darryl Hannah!

[Young Werther]

Lean on Me!

(movie motif)

[blam]

Must have been much warmer then to have been walking around bare-footed, huh?

[MARTIAL MONK]

I'm getting off (no pun intended) this thread. There are indications that I'm starting to petrify.

[No Blue States]

I agree...cut them out to preserve.

There were some great dino tracks at a lake I fish that just set there until the wave action crumbled them to pieces. What a waste...I should have chiseled them out and brought them home.

[Young Werther]

Is the picture getting you "enzited?"

[MARTIAL MONK]

I must be allergic to that stuff.



It makes my stecker piff.

[layman]

size-eight footprints

Nikes?

[MeanWestTexan]

Rockports.

[Young Werther]

Gesundheit!

[martin_fierro]

[potlatch]

Well, at least you got back to the beach safely, snicker!!

[onedoug]

La Brea Woman was thrown into the tar pits in Los Angeles a thousand years before. She had a dental abcess, and a skull fracture. Her contemporaries must have thought her too whacky to have lived on.

[devolve]

LOL!

[devolve]

I couldn't help myself!

[MeekOneGOP]

:^D

[potlatch]

No, actually I think it was "Angel Guy"!!

[Young Werther]

WHERE'D YOU GET THAT PICTURE OF ME!

MY GIRL-BABE, PICTURED ABOVE, PROMISED TO KEEP IT OUR SECRET!

[potlatch]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the pings, Charles Henrickson, CholeraJoe, and martin_fierro. I could have sworn we had a topic about this, but didn't find it.

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[Dustbunny]

So, where is the photographic evidence of these foot prints?

[Dustbunny]

LOL

[aculeus]

So, where is the photographic evidence of these foot prints?

See #20.

[Ciexyz]

Planet of the Apes and Charlton Heston!