Torquay Museum

May 2021, Year 4, age 9

We visited Torquay Museum to see the finds taken from Kent's Cavern (and stone age Devon in general).

animal bones from a time without people   neanderthals

We saw the remains of ice age animals like mammoths and woolly rhinos.

ice age animals ice age animals   ice age animals

We saw the remains of animals that lived during the interglacial periods.

interglacial animals interglacial animals

We also saw evidence of human occupation in the form of tools and bones.

interglacial animals   interglacial animals

The shell may have been used as a lamp and the tooth might be a very early (for Britain) modern human.

interglacial animals
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