On 18 January 1823, The Red Lady of Paviland was discovered in a cave on the Gower peninsula, Swansea, by William Buckland, a reverend and Oxford University's first ever professor of geology.

"She" was immediately transported to the Oxford University museum, prompting a two-century campaign for the remains to be repatriated back to Wales.

Yet, for at least the first century after the discovery, no-one was entirely sure about what they'd found.

On 18 January 1823, The Red Lady of Paviland was discovered in a cave on the Gower peninsula, Swansea, by William Buckland, a reverend and Oxford University's first ever professor of geology.

"She" was immediately transported to the Oxford University museum, prompting a two-century campaign for the remains to be repatriated back to Wales.

Yet, for at least the first century after the discovery, no-one was entirely sure about what they'd found.

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