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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Dalya Alberge

UK experts fear losing access to ice age mammoths Cotswolds site to UAE

A smiling David Attenborough in a shirt and jumper holding a gigantic mammoth bone with other bones in the foreground
David Attenborough in the 2021 programme Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard. Photograph: Julian Schwanitz/BBC/Windfall Films

Leading British archaeologists and palaeontologists are warning that one of the nation’s most significant palaeolithic sites is under threat because there is not enough legislation to protect it.

They are calling for changes to the law amid fears that crucial evidence at a site in the Cotswolds could be lost to the UK for ever.

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