Making old bones: Joint Mitnor cave reopens with replica fossils

Experts use 3D printing to restore mound of fossilised remains in Devon quarry plundered by thieves in 2015

Future archaeologists may be seriously puzzled by Joint Mitnor, a cave in a Devon quarry. They will find a mound of fossil bones of animals, which about 120,000 years ago were unfortunate enough to fall through a sinkhole into the limestone cavern.

Among bison and hippo bones they will find the teeth of wolves, bears and elephants, and the droppings of hyenas that probably came into the cave to feast on their rotting corpses, which appear to date from the 21st century.