MP Gallery - Warlingham, Surrey, England - Hawk, Sline's Oak; l) crocodileab22

Identification (Ron Williams): Crocodile. Flint. Hawk site. Found among Mousterien tools. The crocodile is known to have lived in the Thames River during the Ipswichian interglacial (Eemian II 90,000-70,000 BP). See photo of sculpture in previous.

Comment: Jan Evert Musch suggests this may be intended to represent a hippopotamus, which was also present during the Ipswichian.

Illustration © Sieman Dijkstra 1996, collected by Ron Williams. Williams, R. (1994). Warlingham, an open air-art gallery of "visual imagey". Archaeologische Berichten 22:53 (Elst, NL).