<< Our Photo Pages >> Mesolithic Human Footprints at Uskmouth - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Wales in South Glamorgan
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Mesolithic Human Footprints at UskmouthCountry: Wales County: South Glamorgan Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Newport Nearest Village: Uskmouth
Map Ref: ST32808260
Latitude: 51.538283N Longitude: 2.970309W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Andy B visited on 15th Feb 2011 Featured as part of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver
The Caldicot and Wentloog Levels are two areas of low-lying estuarine alluvial wetland and intertidal mudflats adjoining the north bank of the Severn estuary, either side of the River Usk estuary near Newport in south east Wales. They are also known collectively as the Monmouthshire Levels or Gwent Levels. At Uskmouth, Magor and Goldcliff there are prints of Mesolithic women, men and children, animals such as aurochs (wild cattle), deer and wolves, and many bird species. At Oldbury, Neolithic human footprints were found alongside domestic cattle hoof prints, and similar hoof prints were associated with the later prehistoric buildings at Redwick and Goldcliff. Prehistoric and Romano-British people used the estuary for seasonal activities including summer livestock grazing and salt production.
The Goldcliff remains are stratified in an estuarine clay underlying a sequence of peat deposits. Late Mesolithic human footprints, impressed into the lower Wentlooge Formation have been found at Uskmouth. Again they were preserved in estuarine clay beneath a deposit of clay. It is reasonable to suppose that other important evidence of Mesolithic activity will be found preserved further inland, and perhaps most particularly at the interface between the levels and solid geology to the north.
Read more at Wikipedia, ‘Footprints on the sands of time’: the archaeology of the Severn Estuary by Adrian M. Chadwick (PDF) and Gwent Levels Historic Landscape Characterisation Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust
IMPORTANT NOTE: The location given is an estimate, we do not know exactly where the footprints can be found on the foreshore
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