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on Mar 13, 2012
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Recently I have been researching and preparing for my talk on a Horrible and Curious Wiltshire History. I sent out a call to colleagues asking for any curious items they had come across and knowing my interest in animal related stories (see previous blogs) several items for my growing historic, virtual menagerie were passed to me.
The amazing pig of knowledge...
I am indebted to my colleague Robert Jago who forwarded the following candidates:
Introducing the two-headed calf: a letter in the Marlborough Journal on 25 May 1771, tells of a calf at Mr Oven’s farm, of Garsdon, Malmesbury, born with 2 heads, 2 necks, 4 eyes, 4 front feet, but only 2 behind, and a double leg which became 2 at the hoof, 2 backs, 2 tails and one belly, two hearts, 2 pairs of lungs and 4 passages behind.
