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Goldcliff Footprints

Severn Estuary, Newport

Stone Age children's footprints preserved in the estuary mud.

At low tide, the mudflats near Goldcliff sometimes reveal layers of very old mud. In them are footprints left around 7,500 years ago by Stone Age people, many of them children, along with prints of deer and birds.

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When
c. 7,500 years ago
Where
51.5400, -2.9000
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

Visiting

The mudflats are dangerous. View from the sea wall only.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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