Two elephant trusks picked up by a fishing trawler near the Shetland Islands and submitted to Dr Clarke and Professor Ritchie, of Aberdeen, have been declared, to be prehistoric relies of great scientific interest. The tusks measure s(?in and 52in in length, and I,‘lin and I Gin base circumference respectively.’ They are relies of the mammoth or shaggy elephant, and arc supposed to have boon carried down from the Arctic on an iceberg,' or left perhnns by the mammoths which existed on the great plain now occupied In- the North Sea. The age of the tusks has been put down at 50,000 years.
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Evening Star, Issue 21662, 6 March 1934, Page 11
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