GUARDIAN  |  Environment

Country diary: Mammoth and bear, replaced by mattress and beer can

乡村日记:猛犸象与熊,变成了床垫与啤酒罐

‘The pit’s detritus, old and new, is covered for a short time with a thick frost.’

‘The pit’s detritus, old and new, is covered for a short time with a thick frost.’

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The gorge is, in fact, a Victorian tramway, originally built to transport chalk, but the excavation revealed a superb section of ice age sedimentation. Little of this shows now, but there are glimpses still, high up on the slopes, beneath the thick undergrowth. I scramble up and touch the Pleistocene, reaching back over 200,000 years.

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