What specific fossils and artefacts are on offer? The collection includes the following and most can be seen, and held, at the events:
- Billion year old meteorite
- Trilobite 250 – 520 million years old
- Seeded Tree Fern 300 million years old
- Belemite (squid bone) 201 million years old
- Crocodile tooth 145 million years old
- Utah Raptor Claw (replica) 135 million years old
- Coprolite (poo) 125 million years old
- Mosasaur tooth in jawbone 101 million years old
- Mosasaur tooth and sabretooth herring vertebrae (feeding behaviour) 101 million years old
- Therapod tooth 100 million years old
- Grasshopper 100 million years old
- Ammonite 100 million years old
- Pterosaur tooth 96 million years old
- Sawfish tooth 95 million years old
- Oviraptor Eggshell 75 million years old
- Saltasaurus Eggshell 70 million years old
- Libyan Desert Impact Glass 26-29 million years old
- Megalodon Tooth 23 million years old
- Whale Ear Bone 12 million years old
- Dolphin Vertebrae 10 million years old
- Hand Axe 130,000 – 1,700,000 years old
- Flint Knife 20,000 years old
- Neolithic Flint Arrowhead 6,000 years old
- Neolithic Pottery Fragment 6,000 years old
- Bronze-age Persian Arrowhead 3,000 years old
- Viking / Medieval Arrowheads 700CE – 1400CE (replica)
- Karambits (replica) 1000CE – 2020CE: I have one (a few) designed by Forged in Fire judge Doug Marcaida
- Norman Sword 1066CE – 1180CE (replica)
- Musket balls from Siege of Derry 1600 – 1690CE
- Flintlock Pistol 1700s (replica)
- Cold .45 Single Action Army 1872 (replica)
- Winchester Repeating Rifle (mares leg edition) 1892CE (replica)
So as you can see, whilst this list is far from exhaustive, there is something from most time periods throughout history.
Note: all these fossils were bought from www.fossilsforsale.co.uk and the musket balls were bought from Gerry on eBay. Without them I wouldn’t have this collection.
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