A Wooly Tail Traditional Cache
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This cache is dedicated to the west runton mammoth.
A Steppe Mammoth skeleton which was discovered in cliffs in Norfolk in 1990. The remarkable 85 per cent complete skeleton – the most complete example of its species ever found in the world - is preserved by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service in Norwich.
On the 13th of December 1990, following a storm, Harold and Margaret Hems took a walk on the beach to see if any fossils had been uncovered by the sea. They found a large bone partly exposed in the face of the freshwater bed and realising its importance contacted Norfolk Museums Service. Excavation soon revealed that their find was the pelvic bone of a huge elephant. Next to the pelvic bone was a much smaller bone, an astragalus (ankle bone), also of an elephant. The occurrence of more than one elephant bone,
apparently from the same individual, suggested that more bones might eventually come to light as the cliff was eroded by the sea.
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