Mammals

Mammoth bone

Between approximately 60,000 and 100,000 years ago there was a land bridge between mainland Europe and the United Kingdom. Now, this is covered by the North Sea. Dutch trwalers, dredging for sole, scrape up amongst their catch a bonus haul of sub-fossil bone, including mammoth, woolly rhino, bison, and giant elk.

These bones are from the mammoth Mammuthus primigenius.

They are just lumps of bone from (usually) indeterminate parts of the animal, but are a good-sized chunk, maybe 7-9cm across.