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Posted on 02/12/2007 6:51:27 AM PST by 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."
global warming? before cars?
Footprints in the Peat Bed.
Kenfig Beach, Porthcawl a popular vacation spot for Helen Thomas when she was a teenager.
Why would they want them covered with sand and not removed to the safety of a museum?
This bears re-peating.
Old stuff ping.
please, no picture
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)
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.
Probably some people from my Dad's side of the family...
They were probably on the run --- welshing on a debt....
no pictures?
Aren't you cute! ;9)
Damn, and I just mopped that beach, too.
Check the shoe size of those guys who did the crop circles.
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" until sea levels rose approximately 8,000 years ago."
Impossible.
Sea levels didn't rise until Western culture came on the scene.
Archeologists were able to prepare a preliminary pictoral presentation based on the footprints.
Yay, forensics!
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