SHEEP OF 1000 YEARS AGO
LONDON, Aug. b>. The liiOO-yeiirs-oh! skeleton of a sheep Inis been discovered in a Neolithic. camp recenlly exea tal cd near I In' I high lon racccon rsc. II is believed In be I lie lirsl coiiipbde. Neolithic sheep foil ml in Britain, -aml.il lias been sent to the Natural History .Museum at South Kensiugtun, Where tin* skeleton, is now being restored with n view to - comparison with the anatomy of the, modern sheep. This is one of a number of unusual discoveries made during the excavations. The ramp lias proved to lie one of the largest of the eight known Neolithic, settlements in Kiigltuid. The remains of human burials lum* been found.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 10
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