Cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find
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- A hidden cave under Pembroke Castle, known as Wogan Cavern, has been discovered.
- The cave contains rare evidence of early humans and prehistoric animals, including hippo bones from 120,000 years ago.
- Initial excavations revealed stone tools and bones of mammoths, hippos, and woolly rhinoceros.
- The site could chart human activity from after the last Ice Age back to early Homo sapiens and possibly Neanderthals.
- A five-year excavation led by the University of Aberdeen will begin to explore the cave's prehistoric archive.
- The findings may rewrite Britain's prehistory and show climate impacts on human life over 100,000 years.