The number of items on display in the centre's Gateway Centre exhibition area is to be increased
It is hoped that the giant woolly mammoth skull which was found in a gravel pit at Ashton Keynes will provide the centrepiece in the education centre.
The skull was found by Neville Hollingworth, a science programmes officer at the Swindon-based Natural Environment Research Council.
The skull, which was probably buried between 50,000 and 240,000 years ago, measures 1 m by 1.5 m and is so well preserved that delicate features such as cheekbones are still intact and the teeth are still in their sockets.
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