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LOT 2228
Natural History - 'North Sea' Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.
7 1/2 in. (2.23 kg, 19 cm).
Showing wear in life to biting surfaces, from Mammuthus primigenius. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK.
Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Literature
See Lister & Bahn, Mammoths, for general information (a useful introduction).
Footnotes
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man. The North Sea basin is a drowned landscape, flooded after the end of the last Ice Age. Fishing trawlers occasionally bring up bones and relics from when the area was inhabited as dry land.
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LOT 2228
Natural History - 'North Sea' Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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