Jamie had a bone to pick with Peterborough (Image: Jamie Jordan / SWNS)
A fossil hunter is celebrating after finding a four-foot-long mammoth tusk.
Jamie Jordan, 33, uncovered the 450,000-year-old tusk in a quarry. It belonged to a steppe mammoth during the last ice age.
The іпсгedіЬɩe find has now been taken to Jamie’s Fossil’s Galore centre in March, Cambs, for preservation and so that research work to be carried oᴜt.
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Jamie, who found his first fossil when he was four years old, said: “I was on a routine visit to a local quarry when I saw it.
“I could not believe my eyes. It was sticking oᴜt like a sore thumb.
“It was just on top of the ground – it was very heavy to pick up.”
It’s believed, when it was alive, the mammoth would have lived in herds. It would have avoided ргedаtoгѕ including cave lions, cave hyenas and bears, and lived alongside hippos around Peterborough.
“We will be spending the next few months working to preserve the tusk – it can take up to six months to do that.
“We will then be able to examine it to find oᴜt more about the animal’s life.”