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Thread #163442 Message #4132653
Posted By: Rain Dog
17-Jan-22 - 05:56 AM
Thread Name: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
Subject: RE: Armchair Archaeologist (via Google Earth)
From the BBC
Crocodile found under Rhondda school floor
'A 120-year-old skeleton of a crocodile discovered under a school classroom has gone on display.
The bizarre find was made when builders lifted the floorboards of a Rhondda Cynon Taf school during renovation work.
Until then the story of a creature buried beneath Ysgol Bodringallt in Ystrad was long thought to be a myth.
Now the "legendary" saltwater crocodile has pride of place in the school after more than two years of restoration.
"I'd heard a story that parents and school staff had buried a crocodile under the school some time between the two world wars," head teacher Dr Neil Pike said at the time.
"But I thought it was a myth and didn't take any notice - until laid on the floor of the hall was the crocodile!"'