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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

Experts baffled after 8,000 frog and toad bones found at ancient Iron Age site

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Thousands of frog and toad bones have been unearthed by archaeologists at an Iron Age village site in rural Cambridgeshire.

Some 8,000 bones belonging to at least 350 frogs and toads were discovered in a 14-metre ditch near a roundhouse dating back to the middle and late Iron Age, somewhere between 400BC and AD 43.

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