Lunan Bay Footsteps
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Mark Stephen speaks to Kate Britton about the race to preserve a 2000 year old footprint.
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| 0:41.6 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. You know to my mind, one of the great joys of archaeologists, their ability to find something |
| 0:46.4 | or some place that somehow captures a moment in time and there was a really good example of this |
| 0:51.7 | recently, found on a beach called Lunan Bay |
| 0:54.6 | just to the south of here in Aberdeen. |
| 0:57.9 | Now, very exciting for the archaeologists involved, but they didn't have a lot of time to muck |
| 1:03.6 | about because the sea, the weather, everything else was encroaching on something that was |
| 1:07.9 | incredibly fragile. Not long ago, I spoke to one of the archaeologists involved, |
| 1:14.1 | the person in charge, Professor Kate Britton from the University of Aberdeen, |
| 1:18.4 | and asked her what they'd found. |
| 1:21.4 | So you can see up here on the dunes, there's layers revealed by the erosion of the dunes that are showing. |
| 1:26.6 | See those dark bands? That's shown you where soils began forming. the dunes that are showing. See those dark bands? |
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