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Brook Bay Dinosaur bone - Andrew Marsh |
Had a camping trip to the Isle of Wight, and decided to go on the hunt for the illusive dinosaur bone fragments this location is famed for. To be honest, given the unusually good weather (hot and sunny) and time of year (late June) I wasn't too hopefull, but thought it was worth a shot. Anyway, after three long hours of searching, and having given up any hope of finding anything, I finally found a small fragment of fossilised bone attached to a sandstone pebble. I took it to the local museum and was told, yes it was bone, and yes it was almost certainly dino :)So the hard work had paid off. Made another visit there on the Sunday morning, again not particularly hopeful, and after two hours I made another dino bone find - another rolled bone fragment, approx 3cm long. Took it to the museum again, and it was confirmed that it was dino bone :)Well, what they actually said was that statistically it was likely to be dino as they are by far the most common vert finds, though there was a small chance it could be croc or turtle. So there you go. Brook bay is definitley worth a visit, and my experience is that a little persistance pays off. Look in the shingle areas and within the rock pools for anything black. Most of the black pebbles are fossil wood or flint, but bone is unmistakable when u find it with its crunchy bar texture. Good luck! 26th June 2009 |
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11 August 2008 - Mike Webster |
11/8/08 Took family down onto Brook beach, most dangerous thing was the large quantity of Portuguese Man o'War, kept kids away from cliff sides. If you like fossil wood this is your place, some huge chunks covered with pyrite. Was very lucky to get the Hypsilophodon bone as I was walking in the wash and spotted it rolling around, very much same tactics as Bracklesham, Sussex. Met another guy there who had found some very small but nice fish teeth set in a small rock. On the whole not a great family fossil experience as I was the only one to find anything of any merit but there are plainly great fossils there if you are lucky. You will get fed up with picking up hopeful black things to discover it's MORE WOOD.
Went to Dinosaur Farm nr Brighstone who were informative, ID'd bone for me and gave the kids some proper fossils to oggle at!!
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