Show DIG UP prehistoric RELICS bones of a lion don found below one of the streets in the english metropolis london authorities at the south kensington museum ot of natural his tory have determined that the fossil bones of a lions ilona leg and of a mam main moths hip which were recently discovered 35 feet below the surface of fleet street belong to the pleistocene period these prehistoric relics were found within 30 yards of tho the spot where bere the skull of a woolly rhinoceros bones of the reindeer and of the extinct great ox and horse were found several years neo ago it Is common enough to find roman homan relics when excavating in the center or city of london but fossils of the pleistocene age are so BO rare as ai to be of striking interest to the geologists F E beddard F R 8 answers the question BB as to how chest animals made their way into the brit lah ish isles durin during the period of the earths earth history w which abw these great t beaste grazing on the plains of northern eu rope and asia he said england was not divorced from the continent and the thames flowed on to join the rhine |