MAMMOTH FOOT BONE (CUNEIFORM BONE) - about 20,000 years old - Dredged from the North Sea floor
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(Cuneiform bone)
About 20,000 years old
Brown Bank, North Sea
An superb example of a mammoth foot bone (cuneiform bone). It was dredged from the Brown Bank on the North Sea floor.
Brown Bank, North Sea
An superb example of a mammoth foot bone (cuneiform bone). It was dredged from the Brown Bank on the North Sea floor.
During the coldest periods of the Ice Age the North Sea was dry land and occupied by herds of large mammals.
Ice Age bones are relatively young in geological terms and not completely fossilised. It has therefore been treated with a preservative.
Size: 11 x 11 x 5 centimetres
Weight: 382 grams
