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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."


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KEYWORDS: ancientfootprints; footprints; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; paleontology; peat; trackway; trackways; wales
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I couldn't help myself!


41 posted on 02/12/2007 1:20:23 PM PST by devolve ( ........"refresh" my (updated) graphics posts)
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:^D


42 posted on 02/12/2007 1:22:27 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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No, actually I think it was "Angel Guy"!!


43 posted on 02/12/2007 1:29:28 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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WHERE'D YOU GET THAT PICTURE OF ME!

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

44 posted on 02/12/2007 3:04:47 PM PST by Young Werther
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LOL!


45 posted on 02/12/2007 3:08:20 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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46 posted on 02/12/2007 10:10:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Saturday, February 3, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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So, where is the photographic evidence of these foot prints?


47 posted on 02/13/2007 6:46:41 AM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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LOL


48 posted on 02/13/2007 6:47:10 AM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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So, where is the photographic evidence of these foot prints?

See #20.

49 posted on 02/13/2007 6:48:53 AM PST by aculeus
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Planet of the Apes and Charlton Heston!


50 posted on 02/13/2007 11:17:20 AM PST by Ciexyz (In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6)
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wow, those are impressive, they almost look as though they were recently made. ;0)


51 posted on 02/13/2007 3:34:26 PM PST by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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