HUGE TUSKS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 January 1924, Page 10

HUGE TUSKS.

Huge tusks which have been found at gravel pits at F«dmonton are believed by experts to belong to prehistoric mammoths that lived probably 200,000 years ago. v.,vw They are held to belong to an animal of the glacial age known as the elephas primigenius. Other finds include thick bones which could have belonged to the same animal. \

Exnerts declare that the whole ovihv Lee Valley, in the heart of which Edmonton is situated, is rich in remains oi prehistoric ages, and further interesting discoveries are expected The bones and tusks were found about 49ft from the surface.