(New species of Walrus?, jaw found by Mr. I.J. Cruickshanks) - 1993

(Top-down view of jaw from 1993, now at Norwich Museum) - 1993

In 1993, after a large high tide at Easton South cliff, a Jaw was showing from the stone bed. After careful digging, It was cleaned. The Jaw appeared to be very odd, because it was very difficult to identify. It was taken to Norwich Museum and they said, they could not identify it alone. After several experts examined it, it was found to be possibly Walrus. There was one problem though, the Walrus was different to similar jaws found and comparing it to a modern day walrus (top photo), it is clear it is much smaller but has adult teeth. It is still being identified and so far, no positive answer has been given.

Bones are very rare in the South cliff, but they are of good condition and generally tend to be whole and large bones, they tend to be found on an average basis of around one bone to every 5 large high tides (around 2 major high tides a year)

(Proximal articulation of Tibia, Mammuthus Meridionalis) - 1990

Easton Bavents North cliff is sadly getting poor as it is slowly disappearing due to errosion. The Cliff is so small that bones are not very often found any more, at one time, Elephant Molars, Whale ribs were very common and many Horse teeth, Deer were also found. The shell bed contains many shells and sometimes mammal remains. Fox jaws for example have been found in the bed.

Occasionally pieces of tusk are found. Bones at the South end of the North cliff tend to be hard and well preserved but those from the North side of the North Cliff tend to be fragile, decomposed and often too badly broken. The far North side of this cliff the bones are basically powder.

Bones from Easton are mostly found in the stone bed above the shell bed, sometimes they appear in the upper shell bed, occasionally in the lower shell bed and on rare occasions in the crag below the shell bed.

(Range of bones found at Easton)

(Elephant Scapular) - 1998