5,000-year-old
footprint of an adolescent human
Collection
of footprints, including the one above. Top right and lower left is
the adolescent. Top left is a child. Lower right is a red deer. All were
destroyed by the next tide.
Gordon Roberts showing how the edge of one layer of sediment
is eroded by the sea, revealing the footprint in the lower (and older)
layer
Mixing plaster to make a permanent cast of a footprint. Left
is Pat Roberts, centre is Gordon, right rear is Janet Graves (co-producer)
and front right is Mark Whitaker (presenter)
Examining the freshly-made plaster cast, shortly before the sea comes
in and destroys the footprint
Taking
the plaster cast to retired chiropodist-turned-archaeologist Phyllis
Jackson for her expert opinion