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Like the hundreds of thousands of other trees being cut down to make way for the £371million road tunnel, the ancient beech was destined for the chop.
That was until foresters pointed out the wartime1943 carving of a naked woman and the inscription etched on the trunk.
A Highways Agency spokesman said: "It's an interesting little piece of history and we have managed to amend the boundary so that the tree can stay."
Like the hundreds of thousands of other trees being cut down to make way for the £371million road tunnel, the ancient beech was destined for the chop.
That was until foresters pointed out the wartime1943 carving of a naked woman and the inscription etched on the trunk.
A Highways Agency spokesman said: "It's an interesting little piece of history and we have managed to amend the boundary so that the tree can stay."