Pleistocene Environmental Findspot record TQ 75 SE 402 - Pleistocene mammalian remains at Boughton, near Loose

Pleistocene mammalian remains from loam-filled fissures in the Lower Greensand (Hythe Beds) at Boughton, near Loose. First noted by Topley (1), and then reported by Worssam (2). Species include bovid, red deer, horse, hyanea, mammoth and woolly rhinoceros. (1-2)

The remains of hyaena, mammoth, woolly rhinocerous, reindeer and red deer were found in Boughton Cave (precise location unclear) in or before 1869. (3)

<1> Worssam, B.C. , 1963, Geology of the Country Around Maidstone: Memoir for 1:50 000 Geological Sheet 288 (England and Wales). , p107 (Monograph). SKE29902.

<2> Topley, W, 1875, The Geology of the Weald. , p174 (Monograph). SKE29894.

<3> C. H. D. Cullingford, 1964, British caving: An introduction to speleology (Monograph). SKE58582.