a very period property.

[robgil]

http://www.mud-brick.com/2010/10/the-bone-collectors-mammoth-bone-huts-of-the-upper-paleolithic/

Interesting stuff.

 

[Penners]

I wonder whether mammoth bone is more resistant to decay than oak. If so, you might consider using it for some of your repairs, Rob.

 

[Moo]

Those archaeologists really are clever folk, aren't they?
If I'd come across that pile of bones I'd have assumed it was a prehistoric version of the municipal tip.

 

[Flyfisher]

. . . or the local abbatoir: http://islesproject.com/2009/01/12/50000bce-slaughtering-mammoths-an-early-abattoir-at-the-lynford-site-norfolk/

 

[Feltwell]

On the first Civil Engineering job I worked on, we discovered that an abbatoir that had been on the site from early Victorian times right up to the 1960's had been using an abandoned mineshaft as a dumping ground for all it's "waste material". I can still remember the smell when the shaft cap was removed - the years since it was last used had not dulled the smell much.