Monday, 9. August 2004
Topic: NATURE - on August 9, 2004 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Badgers threaten Stonehenge burial sites
Determined digging by badgers living near Stonehenge's 5,000-year old circle of megaliths is damaging ancient archaeological artefacts and human remains.
The shy nocturnal animals are burrowing into pre-historic burial mounds on Salisbury Plain.
Their excavations have already disturbed some of the thousands of human remains and rare artefacts buried a few feet beneath the surface of the Plain on which Stonehenge -- a world heritage site -- sits.
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