A life-size, reconstructed mammoth at Ipswich Museum

Visit Ipswich Museum to see a life-size mammoth reconstruction, and fascinating fossil remains.

Suffolk Mammoth Trail

Fossil elephants, mammoths and mastodons are a Suffolk speciality. We have the most complete range in Britain , spanning over four million years of the Pliocene and Pleistocene periods.

GeoSuffolk has created a Suffolk Mammoth Trail. It explains the wildlife of a range of warm interglacial and cold glacial periods in Suffolk . We have set up seven outdoor panels at sites across the county, each featuring a wildlife panorama in colour, with information about the site, its plants and animals (including early humans) and environment.

You can see the panels at:

•  Blythburgh, Toby's Walks picnic site

•  Lower Holbrook, car park

•  Long Melford, Rodbridge picnic site

•  Wherstead, Bobbit’s Lane car park

•  Homersfield, village green

•  Lackford, Lackford Lakes nature reserve

•  Needham Market, Needham Lake

GeoSuffolk leaflet to download

Download the GeoSuffolk Mammoth Trail leaflet to find out more – click here

Suffolk Mammoth Trail panel at Suffolk Wildlife Trust Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve

When you visit the the Mammoth Trail panel at Needham Lake look out for the Mid Suffolk Aggregates Trail.

Click on the thumbnail below to see a larger image of the Suffolk Mammoth Trail panel at Homersfield (large file so please be patient).

The artwork is by Beverly Curl - email beverly.curl@blueyonder.co.uk