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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach - Ancient Village or Settlement in Wales in South Glamorgan

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 14 February 2011  Page Views: 11285

Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach Alternative Name: Kenfig Sands
Country: Wales County: South Glamorgan Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Kenfig
Map Ref: SS785807
Latitude: 51.512122N  Longitude: 3.752266W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach
Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach submitted by Andy B : Kenfig footprint group 3 Image copyright GGAT (Vote or comment on this photo)
A beachcomber 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 2007, 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.

Source: ICWales

The prints have been investigated and verified by Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust, they have reported it in their newsletter and produced two reports, here and here (PDF)

Steve announced the discovery in our forum at the time.
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Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach
Ancient Footprints on Kenfig Beach submitted by Andy B : Part of the group 6 footprints at Kenfig Image copyright GGAT (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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SS7880 : Shipwreck on Kenfig Sands by Trevor Rickard
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SS7880 : Traeth Cynffig / Kenfig Sands by Alan Richards
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SS7880 : The beach at Kenfig Nature Reserve by Eirian Evans
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SS7880 : Kenfig Sands by Eirian Evans
by Eirian Evans
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SS7880 : Horse riders on Kenfig Beach by Eirian Evans
by Eirian Evans
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Footprints on Kenfig Beach the first site on BBC's History Of Ancient Britain by Andy B on Monday, 14 February 2011
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The first site to be featured in BBC's History Of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver

A History Of Ancient Britain will turn the spotlight onto the very beginning of Britain’s story. From the last retreat of the glaciers 12,000 years ago, until the departure of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century AD this epic series will reveal how and why these islands and nations of ours developed as they did and why we have become the people we are today. The first series transmits in early 2011 and there will be a following series in 2012.

Watch the series on BBC IPlayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xchyf

As well as being a presenter, Neil is also an archaeologist, historian and author. He began his television career in 2002 with the BBC2 series ‘Two Men in a Trench’. This battlefield archaeology series explored iconic British battle sites, focusing on human stories, tragedies and drama.

Neil became a familiar face on television thanks to the hugely popular, award winning programme, ‘Coast’, in which the landscapes, history, geography and people of the British Isles are given centre stage in a continuing voyage of discovery, remembrance and reminiscence.

Neil also presented ‘A History of Scotland’ on BBC 1 and BBC2. In this series he revealed how the story of his native Scotland is instrumental to the history of, not only Britain, but also Europe and much of the wider world.
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