FOSSIL ELEPHANT BONE - 500,000 years old - Norfolk
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Cut and polished piece in display box.
Over 500,000 years old
Cromer Forest Bed
Overstrand, Norfolk
A small, cut and polished piece of an elephant limb bone found on the Norfolk coast.
Between one million and 500,000 years ago, in a series of warm periods of the Ice Age, East Anglia was populated by animals such as elephant, rhinoceros, lion, hippo, bear and hyaena. Their bones are found on the Norfolk coast having been washed from a river deposit known as the Cromer Forest Bed, exposed at the foot of the cliffs.
The Cromer Forest Bed is world-renowned for the thousands of fossils it has yielded to fossil collectors over the last 250 years. It is still possible today to find fossilised bones on Norfolk’s beaches.
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Size: 5 x 5 x 2 centimetres (size of box)
Weight: 39 grams
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