Workmen carrylng out excavations ai the Westcott roeket propuhsiqii station in Buckinghamslvire une.overed the skeieton of a prehistoric aninial of the dinosaur family, estiniated to have lived 1 60, 000, oeo years ago. Some of the workmen used the large vertibrae as cricket bulls, but quiekly abandoned the game when arehaeologists identiiied the find. The skeleton is that of a sea lizard, 16 or 17 feet in length, and was found about seven t'eel Lelow the surface.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1947, Page 5
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