Intertidal Holocene footprints and their archaeological significance.

From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

The intertidal zone usually preserves imprints of human activities and prehistoric landscapes. The Formby Point in northwest England along the Irish Sea coast has footrpints preserved on its Late Holocene silts and sands. Dating the prints indicates that they were made during the New Stone Age or Bronze Age. Most of the impressions are children's footprints, with a scattering of men's, women's and animals', such as red deer and horse. The prints also reveal some abnormalities such as missing toes and bursitis.

The Holocene mud-flats of Formby Point, at the mouth of the Mersey estuary in ...

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; DUNE: Formby Point makes a dramatic sight from the air. Photographs featured in The Daily Postcard can be ordered in colour from the Post's photo sales department on 0151-472 2549
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; ...kestrel hunted around them. A short drive up the coast to Formby Point and I was watching more terns on the high tide - common...of two storm petrels and 237 Manx shearwaters he saw off Formby Point that afternoon - more will doubtless follow. In Sefton Park...
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