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Calling all fossil hunters of TSR!

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Reply 40

Smeraldettoi

Also not really fossils but I found some cone structures and thought they looked cool

Reply 41

Smeraldettoi

I’m kinda suspecting this may be an ammonite nodule but I’m not 100%. May try and break into it later on

Reply 42

Smeraldettoi

Beautiful ammonite in situ

Reply 43

Smeraldettoi

Possible dinosaur footprint?

Reply 44

Smeraldettoi

So I picked this up at Lyme Regis last summer and thought not much else of it until I showed it to my fossil hunting group. 30 people said it was a paleolithic or Bronze Age dative stone axe including two archaeologists so I’m pretty pleased with this find but as I’m not entirely convinced I’ll be taking it along to a museum to get formally appraised when I return to Lyme Regis soon

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Reply 45

Smeraldettoi

Fools gold ammonites found at Lyme Regis during a recent holiday, rather pleased with them, along with their reception on my fossil hunting group. Now I get people asking me how to find them so I can now officially say I’ve progressed from amateur

Reply 46

mqb2766

A few hours hunting on at Saltwick (just south of Whitby) and on the north side of Robin Hoods bay gave a fair few usual suspects

One was a bit unusual (its near the bottom mid/left in the above image), it looks like a bit of bone? but has a very smooth, almost glass like "ball" in the middle. @Smeraldettoi Any ideas what it might be?

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Reply 47

Smeraldettoi

Original post by mqb2766

A few hours hunting on at Saltwick (just south of Whitby) and on the north side of Robin Hoods bay gave a fair few usual suspects

Wow amazing finds! I think I see some nice dacs there

I’m not a fossil expert but it looks to me like it could well be a broken belemnite with the phragmocone exposed

Reply 48

mqb2766

Original post by Smeraldettoi

Wow amazing finds! I think I see some nice dacs there

I’m not a fossil expert but it looks to me like it could well be a broken belemnite with the phragmocone exposed

Thanks and for the earlier advice about where to go. Ill have to google what youve just said (understand the belemnite one :-)).

Reply 49

Smeraldettoi

Original post by mqb2766

Thanks and for the earlier advice about where to go. Ill have to google what youve just said (understand the belemnite one :-)).

Ah sorry, dacs is shorthand for dactylioceras, a genus of ammonites commonly found around North Yorkshire

Reply 50

Smeraldettoi

When I went to Whitby on holiday I managed to get to Sandsend and find some more ammonites. Definitely worth getting up at 6am for, even if only for the fact they are somewhat pyritic too