Here's an odd story - captive animal archaeology is a fairly specialised field! A group from UW Trinity St David are digging to try to find the remains of an elephant from Batty's Travelling Menageries that was supposedly killed by contaminated drinking water in 1848. They freely admit it is unlikely to come to anything! BBC News - University archaeologists start Tregaron elephant dig This is my favourite bit:
Elephant, is it? Get a lot of sheep around here, mind. More importantly, my old university has merged & changed names, and I knew nothing about it!
That poor elephant; another example of the dozens of lonely elephants in this country stuck underground for 200 years all alone. The next candidate for Longleat!
