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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-24-05 09:05 AM
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Ancient bone not from monkey spy

Hopes of unravelling the mystery of the legendary Hartlepool monkey - said to have been hanged as a Napoleonic spy - have been scuppered by science.

Earlier this month archaeologists hoped a leg bone found in the sea close to the town could have been from a monkey.

Folklore says a French ship was wrecked off Hartlepool in the Napoleonic Wars. A monkey found in the water was hanged by fishermen fearing it was a spy.

However, tests show the bone to be from a prehistoric deer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/4122756.stm
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