A Woolly Mammoth’s tooth: over 900 grams (just over 2 lbs to some of us)

How amazing is this?  A Mammoth’s tooth dredged up by a trawler from the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Mammoths lived from about 5 million to 4,000 years ago. So, there were some still alive during the earliest civilisations in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, by then confined to Siberia.

Dogger Bank, a fabled fishing ground off the East coast of the UK, was once joined to the coast of Europe and, possibly, the UK.  Named, as many will know, after Dutch fishing boats called Doggers, which were mainly used to catch cod.

Weight 909 grams, measurements: broadly 12 x 10.5 x cms.

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