{"id":48787,"date":"2021-02-02T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T13:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=48787"},"modified":"2021-02-02T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:54:27","slug":"dinosaur-footprint-site-near-barry-damaged-by-looters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2021\/02\/02\/dinosaur-footprint-site-near-barry-damaged-by-looters\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur footprint site near Barry damaged by looters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beach has seen a swarm of visitors since the recent \u2018internationally important\u2019 discovery<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

LOOTERS and vandals have damaged “several areas” of a beach near Barry since the discovery of a fossilised dinosaur footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “internationally important” dinosaur footprint<\/a> was discovered by a four-year-old girl at the Bendricks, a stretch of coastline between Barry and Sully, last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at the weekend souvenir hunters with sledgehammers and crowbars descended on the site – designated as one of Special Scientific Interest – and damaged the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been made aware of a number of reports of anti-social behaviour this weekend, following the news of a new dinosaur footprint being discovered at a beach in south Wales,\u201d said a statement from Natural Resources Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n