AN unusual legacy from the First World War has found a home at one of the region's museums.
A 4ft snake, made out of glass beads by a Turkish prisoner of war, has been given to Eden Camp museum near Malton, North Yorkshire.
The snake was presented to the museum by a visitor from Bristol.
He had been left the item by his father, a veteran of the First World War, who is thought to have been given it by a Turkish PoW held by the British in North Africa at the end of the war.
"It is a quite amazing thing and as the glass beads have not deteriorated at all it is still in its original condition," said museum archivist Nick Hill.
The museum, which is housed in an old Second World War prisoner of war camp, is attempting to find out more about the snake's past from its former owner.
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