Woolly rhinoceros from the Scottish Pleistocene

Synopsis Evidence for the existence in Scotland of the woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blumenbach), has previously been confined to one metacarpal bone. An additional tibia, humerus and molar tooth are now known and are briefly described. All finds are from different localities in the Kelvin valley of the Bishopbriggs district, Lanarkshire. Collagen from the humerus has yielded a radiocarbon date of 27 550 years B.P. This date implies either that the bone is derived from an earlier deposit or that the Kelvin valley sands and gravels are much older than recently suggested and of Middle/Late Weichselian interstadial age.