User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/26

... that the metal detectorists who found the Milton Keynes Hoard were granted a larger share of the reward than usual, because the landowners falsely claimed that they had searched without permission?
... that Rakni's Mound in Ullensaker, Norway, the largest barrow in Scandinavia, contained no body, only cremated skull fragments?
... that prehistoric Orkney has provided so many ancient ruins (pictured) that one of the islands in the archipelago has been described as "the Egypt of the North"?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found in 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s?

... that although it was first classified as a reptile, the extinct genus Batropetes (restoration pictured) is now known to be a microsaur amphibian?
... that the Ritland crater is believed to be a meteoric impact crater?
... that a Neolithic mass grave discovered in 1996 in the German town of Herxheim contains many human skulls that were split into symmetrical halves, as well as evidence of cannibalism?
... that the diminutive pterosaur Arcticodactylus from Greenland had a wingspan of only 24 centimetres (9.4 in)?
...that the Züschen tomb (pictured) and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?