Mammoth profit awaits woman who bought 14,000 year-old woolly tusk at boot sale
Carol Cavanagh paid £650 for the three-foot long fossil, which weighs 15kgs.
She has since had it valued and been told it could be worth more than twice that.
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Hide AdMs Cavanagh, 47, said: “I was first drawn to it because it was big and heavy and I thought it was unusual.
“At first glance I thought it was a lump of wood but on closer inspection I realised it was a tusk of some sort.
“I wasn’t 100% sure if it was a mammoth tusk or not but I just took a gamble.”
She added: “It was the first ever time I had seen one.
“It was more than three feet long and weighed a whopping 33lbs.
“It was the texture and the its weight that drew me to it.”
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Hide AdThe seller told Ms Cavanagh it was part of a woolly mammoth tusk he had found on the beach a number of years ago in East Yorkshire.
She added: “I think he had found it in the mud as the cliffs were deteriorating and falling into the sea.”
It had a £800 price tag on it, but Carol knocked him down to £650.
Ms Cavanagh, who runs a shop in Skirlaugh, near Hull, now plans to sell it at a specialist auction.