New evidence for the occurrence of Eurasian lynx ( Lynx lynx) in medieval Britain

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Hetherington, David A., Lord, Tom C., Jacobi, Roger M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2005
• Subjects: Craven; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.960; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.960; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.960

Abstract The presence of Eurasian lynx as a former native species in Britain during the Holocene is known from bones recovered from several sites. AMS radiocarbon dating of lynx bone recovered from two sites in the Craven area of northern England gave 1842 ± 35 14 C yr BP and 1550 ± 24 14 C yr BP, t...