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Mandible

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD,Use For = Jaw, Lower ; Lower jaw

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 29 December 1927

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/33/14
Scope and Contents

Gregory writes that the lower jaw of a horse has been discovered in the upper drifts filling the pre-glacial valley of the Clyde at Lanark. He suspects that it dates from around the Early Neolithic period. He asks Ewart to look at the specimen and write a short note on it for inclusion in the Hunterian Museum glacial vertebrate fossils.

Dates: 29 December 1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1927

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from John Walter Gregory, 08 February 1928

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/34/2
Scope and Contents

Gregory writes that he has provisionally inserted the bed in a tabular classification as Neolithic. He believes it must be post-glacial, as it represents the silting up of valleys which were excavated at the end of glacial times, but the horse jaw is the only fossil evidence of this.

Dates: 08 February 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1928