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1838 Maidstone Iguanodon 'Mantell piece'a
The famous 'Mantell piece', a rock slab containing the most complete set of articulated dinosaur bones discovered up to that time - those of an iguanodon It was in the possession of Gideon Mantell and here appears in his \Wonders of Geology} (1838), published by Relphe and Fletcher From these and other fossil bones Mantell made estimates of the size of this saurian based on extant land Indeed this piece is considered the type specimen. this piece was originally found by a quarry owner, W.H. Bensted. Bensted would not take Bensted would not take Mantell's price of Ă'ÂŁ10, and it eventually came into Mantell's possession only after a group of his friends raised the Ă'ÂŁ It was, as Mantell noted, one of the most extraordinary specimens in Europe."
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