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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | A Hippo tusk (ivory). Hippos use these huge canines for fighting and could bisect a human in a single bite! (Ouch!)
Joint Mitnor Cave, Buckfastleigh, 125,000 years old, excavated between 1939-41 by Torquay Natural History Soc. |
| Posted Comments: Andy B
(2010-06-16) | Hello, these don't really belong on the Portal as they are too old!
I'm interested in the Buckfastleigh caves however so go on then...
Some very fun caving holidays had many years ago at the William Pengelly Cave Studies centre
More at http://www.pengellytrust.org/mitnor.htm | Andy B
(2010-06-16) | ...actually I remember we did consider booking the Pengelly Centre for a group some time ago. It is £10 per person per night (min £120 a night so you need 12 people) Accomodation is in dorms of 4 so basic but could be fun for a group of stone hunters. To see where it is on our map do a search for TQ11 0DY | AngieLake
(2010-06-17) | I'm sorry Andy, I didn't realise we needed to keep to younger stuff in museums! Glad you posted the caves link as, although I live near there, I'd never been to visit. (Find being underground a bit scary, though managed ok at Kents Cavern last winter.) | Andy B
(2010-06-17) | As far as I know these animals fell into the cave and died without any help from our ancestors. Interesting though it is we'd start turning into a fossil hunting portal along with everything else. Going back to the idea of a stone hunting trip, if you look at the area around SE Dartmoor there are still loads of stone circles and ring cairns out on the moor that no one has photographed for us. | AngieLake
(2010-06-17) | Sorry Andy. As we post site pages for museums I'd mistakenly thought it was helpful to illustrate what each had to offer. Re: finding 'missing' circles, I remember hiking off to look for one on Holne Moor/Ridge[??] above Combestone Tor one day and the hill slope just went on for ever. Near the summit I spotted a herd of cattle and promptly went down again! Such a wimp! (But I'll see what I can do.)
Just lately I seem to be working hard on my postings but adding the wrong things. :-( | Andy B
(2010-06-17) | Don't worry, you're not the only one, we're trying to get a hold on what's being sent in generally. If it's not glacial erratics it's caves or crosses or temples newer than ~800AD etc. Just hardly any new megaliths! I guess all the ones that are not too hard to find or get to have already been added. More on this shortly... | Andy B
(2010-06-17) | P.S. In case that sounds a bit negative - caves and glacial erratics are OK but you need to find some evidence of ancient interest in the site such as rock art or perhaps folklore at a stretch. Crosses and temples are OK if older than ~800AD. Stuff in museums is good but stick to their displays on human prehistory. | AngieLake
(2010-06-17) | So, were the artefacts in Torquay museum found in Kents Cavern ok to post? I was going to put a comment on KC site page to link in. | Andy B
(2010-06-18) | Yes if they are human artefacts, or animal bones killed by early humans more recently than ~100,000 year say. I'm not going to split hairs over the others, they can stay anyway. |
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