PIECE OF MAMMOTH TUSK - About 20,000 years old - Buckinghamshire
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About 20,000 years old
Marlow Sand and Gravel Quarry,
Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
A broken piece of a mammoth tusk from a Buckinghamshire gravel pit. Collected in the 1980s. It has been treated with a preservative.
A broken piece of a mammoth tusk from a Buckinghamshire gravel pit. Collected in the 1980s. It has been treated with a preservative.
Mammoth tusks, teeth and bones have been found in gravel pits in the Thames valley, dating from a cold period of the Ice Age. Most of these fossils are now in museums, and were found when the pits were worked by hand. With mechanical excavation of the gravel such finds are now rare.
Presented in a plastic box with a clear lid.
Size: 8 x 5.5 x 2 centimetres (size of box)
Weight: 36 grams (including box)
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