| Description | [Robert FITCH], chalk, pen and ink lithograph of 'Fossil remains, Cromer', drawn by Miss Turner and lithographed by W Kencely Bridgman, June 1845. The print shows the lower jaw of a rhinoceros with a descriptive text taken from Richard Owen's 'History of British Fossil Mammalia and Birds' (1846), p347:
"The late high tides have partly uncovered the lignite beds along the base of the cliffs; & among the fossil remains of that stratum have been found a fine specimen of the lower jaw of a Rhinoceros, with the 7 molar teeth in good preservation, together with molars of the Elephant, Hippopotamus & Beaver", Cambridge Advertiser, Feb 26 1845.
The jaw of the Rhinoceros has been obligingly transmitted to me for examination by its present possessor Robert Fitch Esq FGS. it is the left ramus of a young, but nearly full grown individual of the Rhinoceros tichorinus. The socket of the first small premolar is not obliterated; the second & third premolars, the last deciduous molar & the first & second true molars are in place; the crown of the last true molar is just about to emerge from its alveolus; the last premolar is concealed in the substance of the jaw beneath the third much-worn tooth in place". |
| Administrative History | Fitch found and kept the specimen which is now in the Castle Museum, Norwich. |