Stone age tool used 9,000 years ago dug up by burrowing bunnies on island off Pembrokeshire

Fresh insights into a remote Welsh island’s ancient past have emerged thanks to the efforts of burrowing rabbits – and the sharp eyesight of two nature wardens.

The bunnies on Skokholm Island, which lies in the Celtic Sea, two miles off the coast of Pembrokeshire, kicked up two pebbles and some shards of pottery as they dug out a new home.

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