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‘Truly unique find’: part of Swindon Stegosaur returns to Wiltshire town

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Fossil remains of the first stegosaur to be described by scientists discovered in a clay pit in Swindon in 1874 .

The remains the hip, a back leg and parts of the backbone of the creature are considered a roadmap’ for understanding what the creature looked like, and can still be seen in London .

But 150 years on, a little piece of the fossil has been returned to the Wiltshire town after two fossil hunters spotted one of its vertebrae on an online marketplace site.

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