Following storms in the autumn of 1986, a track of human footprints was discovered eroding out of the clays in the intertidal zone in front of Uskmouth Power Station. The footprints were found to contain peat deposits, allowing them to be carbon dated to 4200BC. At the time they were the oldest known human footprints in Britain,[1] but in 2013 footprints made about 800,000 years ago were discovered in Happisburgh, Norfolk.
uskmouth, welsh, aberwysg, area, south, city, newport, south, wales, location, edit, effectively, west, village, nash, that, river, meets, severn, estuary, amenities, editit, includes, part, newport, wetlands, reserve, notable, wildlife, reserve, with, reed, b. Uskmouth Welsh Aberwysg is an area to the south of the city of Newport South Wales Location EditUskmouth is effectively in the west of the village of Nash It is at Uskmouth that the River Usk meets the Severn estuary Amenities EditIt includes part of the Newport Wetlands Reserve 1 a notable wildlife reserve 2 with reed beds and grasslands that attract breeding birds such as lapwings redshanks oystercatchers little ringed plovers and ringed plovers as well as visitors such as wigeons shovelers teals shelducks and pintails bitterns hen harriers and short eared owls It is part of the Caldicot Levels Following storms in the autumn of 1986 a track of human footprints was discovered eroding out of the clays in the intertidal zone in front of Uskmouth Power Station The footprints were found to contain peat deposits allowing them to be carbon dated to 4200BC At the time they were the oldest known human footprints in Britain 1 but in 2013 footprints made about 800 000 years ago were discovered in Happisburgh Norfolk References Edit Gathering the Jewels Uskmouth Footprints Coordinates 51 32 46 N 2 57 24 W 51 54611 N 2 95667 W 51 54611 2 95667 This Newport location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Uskmouth amp oldid 956594567, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
