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Ancient footprints found on Welsh beach
IC Wales ^ | Februrary 2, 2007 | Sally Williams, Western Mail

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."


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: ancientfootprints; footprints; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; paleontology; peat; trackway; trackways; wales
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To: devolve

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


21 posted on 02/12/2007 7:36:41 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Young Werther; devolve
hahahaaa!

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


22 posted on 02/12/2007 7:38:23 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: aculeus

That's just the peats


23 posted on 02/12/2007 7:38:55 AM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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To: Young Werther

And I thought that was just a Racquel Welch movie!


24 posted on 02/12/2007 7:42:40 AM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG?


25 posted on 02/12/2007 7:44:27 AM PST by CholeraJoe (The only Americans who need to know where Syria is are the navigators on the bombers.)
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To: Young Werther

...MADE QUITE AN IMPRESSION ON ME!


26 posted on 02/12/2007 7:45:05 AM PST by deathrace2000 ("I regret that I have but one life to give for my country", Nathan Hale before execution.)
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To: popdonnelly

Clan of the Cave Bear and Darryl Hannah!


27 posted on 02/12/2007 7:46:09 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: deathrace2000
Lean on Me!

(movie motif)

28 posted on 02/12/2007 7:47:12 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: Charles Henrickson

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


29 posted on 02/12/2007 7:52:23 AM PST by blam
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To: Young Werther

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


30 posted on 02/12/2007 7:52:34 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: Ditter
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.
31 posted on 02/12/2007 7:55:29 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: MARTIAL MONK

Is the picture getting you "enzited?"


32 posted on 02/12/2007 7:59:00 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: Young Werther
I must be allergic to that stuff.



It makes my stecker piff.
33 posted on 02/12/2007 8:05:10 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: aculeus
size-eight footprints

Nikes?

34 posted on 02/12/2007 8:08:27 AM PST by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: layman

Rockports.


35 posted on 02/12/2007 8:12:25 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: MARTIAL MONK

Gesundheit!


36 posted on 02/12/2007 8:16:21 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: aculeus; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon; SunkenCiv; blam
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37 posted on 02/12/2007 8:32:08 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: devolve

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


38 posted on 02/12/2007 11:27:40 AM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: aculeus

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.


39 posted on 02/12/2007 12:24:33 PM PST by onedoug
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To: MeekOneGOP; potlatch


LOL!


40 posted on 02/12/2007 1:18:57 PM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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