Inspired by Adam Pointer's post ('Wheatears in the Mist') about the fossils he's collected on the Norfolk coast, I thought I'd photograph some of my finds. Most of these are elephant or Mammoth bones (including the piece of ivory!) and I think the humerus might be from an Aurochs. Once you get your eye in, it's not hard to find mammal bones from the various periods of glaciation and interglaciation: the things to look out for are the haversian canals - channels running through the bones that would have supplied blood in the living animal.
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