An elephant in medieval England—Matthew Paris's 13thC drawing of Henry III's elephant from his menagerie at London: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-elephant-at-the-tower.html …pic.twitter.com/1zcExA5PdE
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An elephant in medieval England—Matthew Paris's 13thC drawing of Henry III's elephant from his menagerie at London: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2013/05/the-elephant-at-the-tower.html …pic.twitter.com/1zcExA5PdE
Also fascinating are the elephant remains radiocarbon dated to AD 1290—1410 from Chester... http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/02_february/28/archaeologicaldig.shtml …
All of this only surprising because we are constantly in denial about how international ancient and medieval Europe incl Britain was.
Well observed detail. Wish I had one in classroom.
As seen on the frozen Thames in Dr Who 
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