See our prehistoric cave bears, such as the Ursus spelaeus from the Pleistocene Era, from cave bear teeth & skulls, to the complete skeleton!

As seen on Digging for Britain last Thursday 26th August, 9pm BBC2 here a rare very early specie type Mammoth tooth, note the wide ridges of enamel on the washboard surface, this donates the early Mammoth type, later in the development of the teeth the enamel plates are closer and more numerous. Probably in reflection to the changing environment and food sources.

Click here to see our Mammoth tooth fossil collection at the Fossil Store

Amazing finds by Nick Ashton of the British Museum in Norfolk, pushing early ice age mans inhabitation of Britain to almost one million years ago.

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Mysteriously tantalising Rock art , ice age cave etching found in 2003 at Creswell Craggs by Ian Wall have put Britain on the map of stone age cave art along with such famous sites of Europe as Lascaux and Altamira.

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Fabulously important Bronze age shipwreck finds of the coast of Salcombe, on the south Devon coast of England give an insight into the early British tin mining community some 3000 yrs BC .

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Forteviot Bronze Age tomb, Scotland , excitement overcomes archaeologists as the lid comes off a 4000 yr old high status tomb burial in North Eastern Britain. Which reveals a missing skeleton mystery. Yet find a gold, bone, wooden and bronze bladed dagger, lying along side a fire making kit.

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In the Orkney Isles Hazel Moor directs intriguing finds at west stray a Neolithic site of 50 generations of cultivation, exploring early settlement ,domestication, mystical animal offerings and rituals, with two totally unique finds for Britain of figurine human form carvings buried when the occupants finally beaten off the weathered peninsula exited the coastal village.

However the things which intrigue Dr Alice Roberts mostly and the smallest, watch again on the BBC iplayer to discover a whole new ‘Dig for Britain’ pushing back time and technology and helping of knowledge of Prehistoric Britain stride forward once more…….

Brilliant viewing.....

Scientists in South Africa have unearthed 64,000 year-old "stoneage points", which they say were probably arrow heads. The arrow heads were excavated from the Sibudu Caves. During excavations, Professor Lyn Wadley,University of the Witwatersrand, stated that the team dug through layers of PreHistoric sediments deposited up to 100,000 years ago.

By Victoria Gill, Science reporter, BBC News.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11086110

Click here to see the arrow and spearheads recently unearthed by the Fossil Store...

We will be following with renewed interest This weeks Digging for Britain as the show will be featuring many pre historic artefacts and fossils.

Pre historic sites from around Britain should uncover some fascinating artefacts. Or see our online catalogue for a wealth of stone age implements from around the world…….

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Digging for Britain

The Romans:

BBC 2 at 9pm Digging for Britain, Thursday 19^th August

In the first programme Dr Alice Roberts starts coverage of an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country. The results are astonishing - and sometimes disturbing. Roman finds include the mystery of 97 babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard found in Somerset and a man buried on a layer of dead animals. 

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 Prehistory: 

The penultimate programme covers our Prehistory.

August 26th, 2010 at 9:00pm, in which Dr Alice Roberts follows prehistoric archaeology. Her journey takes her from Orkney to Devon by land, sea and air. In Norfolk, flint tools unearthed recently push the earliest human occupation back by 200,000 years, to around one million years ago. In Orkney an early farm yields glimpses of our ancestors' earliest religious beliefs and customs.

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Villagers in central China dug up a tons of bones then boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional Chinese medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

Until recently, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (£1) per kilogram (2.2lbs), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press.Dong, a professor with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese academy of sciences, said when the villagers found out the bones were from prehistoric dinosaurs they donated 200 kilograms (440lbs) to him and his colleagues for research." Until then they had believed that the 'dragon bones' were from ancient flying dragons". Soup anyone.....?

Fine dinosaur partial egg nest surmounted stainless steel revolving exhibit plinth, Featured at the fossilstore,not double yokers!

Incredibly Rare Spinosaurus Dinosaur Tooth from Morocco, North Africa. Fully intact Tooth with original and complete Root, we have been collecting fossils from Morocco for over 18 years, this is one of the most complete examples we have come across.

Impressive Dinosaur Tooth from one of the Largest Predators of the Cretaceous Period!

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Spinosaurus Maroccanus Tooth sp.(below)