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Two men convicted of felling one of UK’s most famous trees

# Two British men, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, have been found guilty of criminal damage for deliberately felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England. The tree, at a spot known as Sycamore Gap, was located on the historic UNESCO World Heritage listed Hadrian’s Wall, which was constructed almost two-thousand years ago to guard the furthest northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire. The sycamore tree was made famous to millions around the world when it appeared in Kevin Costner’s 1991 blockbuster movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.