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The Ebbsfleet Elephant

Ebbsfleet, Kent

A giant elephant butchered by early humans, found during railway building.

In 2003, during work on the Channel Tunnel rail link, archaeologists found the skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant, twice the size of an African elephant. Flint tools scattered around it showed that early humans had butchered it, around 400,000 years ago.

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When
About 400,000 years ago
Where
51.4400, 0.3300
Group
Bigfoot & Hominids

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The site is now under Ebbsfleet International station.

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