Where Hyenas roamed.

Tonight in a cave not far from here we were shown some remarkable finds. A team of archaeologists are carrying out a week long excavation. The cave itself was first excavated in the late 19th century, but the records of that dig were inaccurate, to say the least. This dig is of national importance as it provides evidence of the late Neanderthal occupation of the Britain. It certainly shows that humans roamed these parts before that last major ice age of some 20000 years ago. The finds from the dig were significant and included remains of animals either extinct or long since departed from these islands. Lions were not unknown (bigger than the modern ones), woolly mammoths, rhinos, and, as the  photograph below shows, huge hyenas. The other remains were mainly chippings from flint tools that were clearly produced in the area. Archaeology is a complex subject that require multiple skills and all these were in evidence amongst the team carrying out the dig. 

 This photograph shows the huge jaw bone of a huge hyena:

The next, me in the depths of the cave: