LARGE FOSSIL ELEPHANT BONE - Two million years old - Suffolk

The Norwich Crag is the name given to a series of marine sands, silts and clays that were deposited in the early Pleistocene Period, between 2.4 and 1.8 million years ago. It can be seen in the cliffs of Suffolk and Norfolk, particularly at Easton Bavents, near Southwold, which is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

The Norwich Crag is famous for the bones of large mammals that it has yielded to fossil collectors over the last 250 years. Many of these have been found washed up on the beaches. This bone was found on the beach and is most likely from the large, extinct ‘Southern elephant’ Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) meridionalis, an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.