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 * ... that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?
 * ... that Rakni's Mound in Ullensaker, Norway, the largest barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
 * ... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
 * ... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found in 108.90 m down a Welsh borehole?
 * ... that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s?
 * ... that although it was first classified as a reptile, the extinct genus Batropetes (restoration pictured) is now known to be a microsaur amphibian?
 * ... that the Ritland crater is believed to be a meteoric impact crater?
 * ... that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of cannibalism?
 * ... that the diminutive pterosaur Arcticodactylus from Greenland had a wingspan of only 24 cm?
 * ...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?