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| Bears | Supplied the Roman Amphitheatre |
| Wolves | No longer wild in the country |
| Wild boars | Until feudal lords used all the acorns to feed domestic pigs |
| Stags | Horns found below surface – one at Tutbury Station when it was first built |
| Small oxen | Short horns found at Tutbury Station |
| Wild cattle | From which our last enclosed
Forest of Needwood (or Neatwood) derived its name. William, Earl of Derby conveyed some of them to his park at Chartley where the breed was been carefully preserved and was still kept by Earl Ferrers up to1863 |
| Roebuck | Horns found in Needwood Forest |
| Fallow deer | Wandered in the forest until the ‘enclosure’ |
| Badger | Becoming more rare |
| Fox | Still around - until butchered by the local hunt!!! |
| Marten | Now nowhere to be found |
| Stoat Weasel |
Still plentiful in late 19th century |
| Polecat | ‘Fetid odour’ Roman: Pollutus catus: Polecat Saxon: Foul marten: Foumart Norman: Fétide chat: Fitchet |
| Otter | In the Dove and Trent |
| Mole | ‘Moldiwarp’
= mold
+ wearpan soil + to turn up (Saxon) Still digging up gardens |
| Salmon Leaps | On River Dove, 2 miles above
junction with Trent Up to 42 fish caught in one year In Dec 1853, many salmon were observed in the river near Tutbury Bridge |
