Overview
- Dog walkers Ivor Campbell and Jenny Snedden spotted the prints at Lunan Bay in Angus after storms stripped back dune sand.
- A University of Aberdeen team led by Kate Britton documented the site in gusts over 55 mph as waves rapidly eroded the exposed surface.
- Archaeologists captured drone imagery, detailed 3D models and plaster casts before the track surface was lost within about 48 hours.
- Dating of charred plant remains beneath the impressions confirms an age of roughly 2,000 years, consistent with the late Iron Age.
- Analysis identifies barefoot human prints alongside red and roe deer tracks, marking Scotland’s first recorded site of this rare type and pointing to the potential for similar finds around the Montrose Basin.