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Vicky Jenner

Vicky Jenner

Victoria (Vikki) Jenner, art historian and Digital Content and Interpretation Producer at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and host of the Vikki Jenner History podcast.

Sep 13, 2026

AdamCORRESPONDENT
1:28
Maybe.
1:29
That is exactly what Robert Plott thought.
1:31
So in the 1670s, and I'm standing right next to his portrait here of this very glorious man with a lovely wig.
1:38
Robert Plott in the 1670s, hundreds of years ago, thought that this could have been when he discovered it on an excavation in Cornwall, which is a small village in Oxfordshire, not far from here.
1:49
He thought it could be or belong to an elephant.
1:52
However, so these were elephants who were brought over by the Romans in the Roman period.
1:57
And...
AdamCORRESPONDENT
2:27
What else is in the trail?
AdamCORRESPONDENT
1:28
Maybe.
1:29
That is exactly what Robert Plott thought.
1:31
So in the 1670s, and I'm standing right next to his portrait here of this very glorious man with a lovely wig.
1:38
Robert Plott in the 1670s, hundreds of years ago, thought that this could have been when he discovered it on an excavation in Cornwall, which is a small village in Oxfordshire, not far from here.
1:49
He thought it could be or belong to an elephant.
1:52
However, so these were elephants who were brought over by the Romans in the Roman period.
1:57
And...
AdamCORRESPONDENT
2:27
What else is in the trail?

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