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Brown Bank (Bruine Bank) trawl grounds, Doggerland
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Shark teethAlso reported: mammoth molars and tusks, woolly rhino, cave lion, musk ox, giant deer, walrus.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Pleistocene
VLIZ notes Late Pleistocene mammoth, reindeer and bison remains are mostly trawled up by fishermen near the Brown Bank; Deposits magazine places the bank about 50 nautical miles off IJmuiden.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open sea, not accessible to individuals
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