Article: Iron Age horses back in the wild.(News)

Byline: ANDREW FORGRAVE

A NEAR extinct prehistoric breed of horse has been returned to the wild in North Wales.

Three Przewalski's horses -- only ever seen in zoos and cave paintings -- are being grazed on a patch of land in Clocaenog Forest.

The animals are in a 12-acre paddock on the site of a former Neolithic/Iron Age settlement designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

The Forestry Commission hopes the beasts will help recreate scenes from the Iron Age when these wild horses first roamed free in the woods.

It has erected a viewing platform so that visitors can be ``transported back thousands of years in time''.

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