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UK: A mammoth, woolly rhino and a medieval village: the unexpected treasures beneath the A14

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excavator operator Darren Hickman, Bill Boismier, Steve Sherlock and Dai Davies with a mammoth tusk and woolly rhino skull.
Digging deep ... excavator operator Darren Hickman, Bill Boismier, Steve Sherlock and Dai Davies with a mammoth tusk and woolly rhino skull. Photograph: Highways England

By Simon Usborne From The Guardian UK

Digging alongside the bulldozers of the £1.5bn road diversion, archaeologists have discovered tonnes of ancient bones. Is there a find so important that it could stop the whole project?

Davies Sherlock and Boismier on site.
‘It’s not something you encounter every day’ says Davies (left), with Sherlock and Boismier. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
Boismier with the mammoth leg bone
‘It could be 130,000 years old’ ... Boismier with the mammoth leg bone. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

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Published November 27, 2018

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