BONES OF A MAMMOTH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

BONES OF A MAMMOTH.

DISCOVERY NEAR LONDON. Six bones, which experts say are portions of a mammoth, have been found in a gravel pit at Edmonton, near London. Two tusks were found in the same pit, and the new bones are believed to belong to the same animal. The bones and the tusks have been identified as belonging to what archteologists call the " El.epha Primigenius. This existed in England and Europe about two hundred thousand years ago. „ They wfjre found on what, is.• called "London claysaid Mr. ; T. J W. Farnborough,, * h % Edmonton librarian, and an expert on the subject. " The animals walked about on * this stratum after the last Glacial Age, more than 150,000 years ago. The bones were lying under three feet of soil and twenty feet of gravel. I have expected these finds, as the valley of the Lea is largely unworked, I am almost sure that, we shall soon nnd rhinoceros bones." Mr. W. P. Pycraft, the British Museum .expert, said: "It is most likely that the bones are those of a mammoth. A tusk belonging to an elephant of the same type was found at llford some years ago, while the skull of a rhinoceros was found under a newspaper office in Fleet Street., These mammoths were like the ordinary Indian elephant, but were hairy. They crossed to England from the Continent, for in those ages this country was joined to France. '