Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Roman Child's Footprints Found

Two thousand-year-old footprints left by a Roman child playing by the side of a road have been found in North Yorkshire.

Photographs show a right footprint clearly visible in soft ground followed by two left prints - suggesting that the boy or girl who made them was hopping or skipping.

The perfectly-preserved footprints were uncovered in 2010 during a dig at Healam Bridge, but photographs have only now been released after Sky News heard of their existence.


There is a big WTF moment tho...

Archaeologists were unable to preserve the footprints and the photographs are the only evidence that remains of the child's brief skip through the Yorkshire mud.

Sounds like incompetent archaeologists to me.

Read more here.

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