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Striped Rock Dismissed as Natural in 1928 Reclassified as UK’s Oldest Cave Painting

It was a case of better late than never for the Guardian: editors issued something of a correction 98 years after the paper reported the UK’s oldest prehistoric art was actually a natural phenomenon. On October, 1912, red streaks discovered on a wall in Bacon Cave near Mumbles, W

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Striped Rock Dismissed as Natural in 1928 Reclassified as UK’s Oldest Cave Painting

It was a case of better late than never for the Guardian: editors issued something of a correction 98 years after the paper reported the UK’s oldest prehistoric art was actually a natural phenomenon. On October, 1912, red streaks discovered on a wall in Bacon Cave near Mumbles, W

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