Mammoth leg found

A MAMMOTH bone dated from two million years ago has been found on a beach.

Dan Chamberlain and Russell Yeomans, amateur archaeologists, discovered a 5ft fossilised tibia in West Runton, Norfolk.

Mr Chamberlain, 52, said: “I was just lucky enough to recognise it because it was the same colour as the rest of the crag around it.”

Mr Yeomans, 64, added: “We had found other little bits and pieces in the sand but to stumble across this was incredible.”

The West Runton Freshwater Bed is a thick layer of pre-historic mud. One of the most complete skeletons of a mammoth was found there following storms in 1990.

Paleontologist Nigel Larkin, involved in the earlier preservation, described the bone as “a fantastic find”.

He said: “They don’t get much better than this. It looks like it might be a complete tibia of a mammoth.”