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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]
ProvenanceDredged 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.
See Lister & Bahn, Mammoths, for general information (a useful introduction).
FootnotesMammoths 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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Showing wear in life to biting surfaces, from Mammuthus primigenius. 2.23 kg, 19 cm
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.
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.
