16th March 2012, 02:55 PM
Originally Posted by kevin wooldridge ![[Image: viewpost-right.png]](http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png)
I recall photographs of a crocodile.....
As someone who was there when it was recovered, I can confirm it was the skeleton of a cayman that was wired together and did indeed include a glass eye - which we gave to the late Peter Donaldson who had lost one of his and wore an eye-patch for much of the latter part of his life. The cayman was accompanied by a considerable quantity of other artefacts such as West African pottery vessels, all of which had been deemed surplus to requirement at Dorchester Musum and had been given to Wheeler to use in the backfilling of his trenches. There was a contemporary news photo of a very fat and jolly policeman carrying the stuffed cayman up onto Maiden Castle - a copy used to be on the wall of the site office.
Beamo
I recall photographs of a crocodile.....
As someone who was there when it was recovered, I can confirm it was the skeleton of a cayman that was wired together and did indeed include a glass eye - which we gave to the late Peter Donaldson who had lost one of his and wore an eye-patch for much of the latter part of his life. The cayman was accompanied by a considerable quantity of other artefacts such as West African pottery vessels, all of which had been deemed surplus to requirement at Dorchester Musum and had been given to Wheeler to use in the backfilling of his trenches. There was a contemporary news photo of a very fat and jolly policeman carrying the stuffed cayman up onto Maiden Castle - a copy used to be on the wall of the site office.
Beamo