Footprints in the sand

On Formby beach the erosion of the sand has revealed footprints that date back to the late Neolithic era.
 

Whilst on a walk in 2012 with friends we were lucky enough to meet a group of archaeologists standing round a black patch on the sand which had clear small footprints sunk into it. We were looking at the marks left by a child running across the mud 7000 years ago.

Three years later an edition of twelve books remembering the day