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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Sycamore Gap tree was at least 100-120 years old, ring count finds

The Sycamore Gap tree stood at a beauty spot on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland that was the site of countless marriage proposals, birthday celebrations and scatterings of ashes. Its illegal felling prompted sadness and anger that rippled around the world. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, the men who cut the tree down on a stormy September night in 2023, were each jailed for four years and three months.
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1 day ago

2,000-year-old Roman bridge discovered in Switzerland

A wooden Roman-era bridge over the Zihl river near Aegerten was repeatedly rebuilt from around 40 B.C. to 369 A.D., yielding numerous artifacts.
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