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The first or second vertebra, after the head, of a mammoth. It would have been dredged from the sea - a fact that is obvious, to the expert, from its colour and weight. About 2 million years old. We do not know exactly from where it was dredged - there is no indication of its origin and it came to the Museum from the Fossil Museum, Silver End, Essex. Cat1 Museum-->Artefacts and Contents

The first or second vertebra, after the head, of a mammoth. It would have been dredged from the sea - a fact that is obvious, to the expert, from its colour and weight. About 2 million years old. We do not know exactly from where it was dredged - there is no indication of its origin and it came to the Museum from the Fossil Museum, Silver End, Essex.


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Image ID IA004225_VERTEBRA
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