Show ice age fossil dug up from gravel pit in ohio cincinnati A fossil high bone of an elephant like animal that roamed ohio more than 40 years ago was found in a gravel pit here the bone measuring 3 feet in length and weighing approximately 75 pounds was unearthed 25 feet underground on property owned by william H barber who donated it to the university of cincinnati according to university museum officials the gravel granel pit from which the fossil was taken was laid down during the last of the glacial epochs of the ice age |