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The Allenton Hippo is a hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England, in 1895. [1] The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered. [2]
The Allenton Hippo is a substantive hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) skeleton that was found in Allenton, Derby, England in 1895. The skeleton is exhibited in Derby Museum and Art Gallery and is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length. It is celebrated today in a sculpture near to where the skeleton was discovered.
Commissioned by Derby City Council, it forms a circular seating area on which are laser-scanned copies and models of some of the key bones of the Allenton Hippo skeleton at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. [2] An easily recognisable feature of the local streetscape is a pedestrian footbridge over the Mitre Island roundabout, erected in July 1971.
The "Allenton Hippo" was unveiled in 2007 in Osmaston Road in Derby. It celebrates the Allenton hippopotamus, fossilised bones of a hippopotamus living about 125,000 years ago, discovered nearby in 1895, and now in Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Iron casts of the bones are on a black granite bench, the bench forming a broken ring. [5] [6]
The remainder of the Armley Hippo's 122 bones are kept in the museum's archives. [5] It is rare to find such a large proportion of an ancient hippopotamus skeleton in the UK, it being more common to find just a few bones. [12] The Armley Hippo "is the most northerly specimen of its kind found in the UK". [13] "For generations it’s been the ...
Allenton hippopotamus is in Derby Museum. The Wikiarticle was written to show off the QR codes introduced into the museum as part of the museums collaboration with ...
Another notable find in a related terrace system near Derby from a warmer interglacial period, was the Allenton hippopotamus. [ 41 ] Gravel extraction at Besthorpe
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