Mammoth’s teeth found in the drained marsh. Looking down from the escarpment you can see that the whole of the drained inland sea is flat, and criss-crossed by a network of eighteenth-century drainage dykes. Dotting this flat rational Georgian landscape is a series of ten former big islands encircling medieval villages, and numerous smaller islands supporting farms which acted as centres for summer grazing (sometimes these settlements are named “Heights”, the word being a mispronunciation of “islets”, which leads to a surreal experience when you go to the hamlet of Northern Heights and find the land absolutely level). As the marshes were drained all sorts of curiosities emerged (skeletons of strange beasts, blocks of stone from a boat that sank in the middle ages, bronze-age swords cast into the shallow waters as votive offerings and precursors of arthurian myth). You can imagine the stories that would surround the discovery of these mammoth's teeth. The credulous drainage workers must have thought they were dragon’s teeth.