Posted by John Barton on October 27, 2004 at 04:46:04 from 203.97.103.134 user Nostalgic.
In Reply to: Mersea natives posted by John Barton on October 26, 2004 at 20:13:39:
Apologies for double posting. And that should be Gilbert House, after Dr. William Gilbert, the Colchester man who coined the word 'electricity' in his 1600 book on the magnet. The digs were started by Hiram Hall, my history teacher - I was so hopeless at history
that he got me interested in fossil bones at Mersea. I sent them to Prof. Kenneth Oakley at Cambridge, who was doing research on such heavily fluoride laden bones. Wish I'd kept his letters; he later used the technique to discover the Piltdown Hoax. Sorry if this is off-topic; though mammoths were discovered there. Perhaps AR knew of a mastodon found on Mastodon Island?