Ive finally cracked it...... These have been sat on the beach for hundreds of years in some cases slowley eroding away, with the beach situated amongst the most dense consentration of commercially minded collectors in the country.... The only reasons I can think of that they sat there and wernt picked up is either they are too difficult or time consuming to prep and because of this they would get very little for their efforts in finacial return..... Its the only plausable explanation....to do wh
Another 10 hours has seen off the bulk of the pen work..... I only have to fiddle and tweak it now.... There were 3 1/2 whorls intact, so theres very little of the centre carved and I only have to repair a small section at the top that was sea worn, to make this an impressive display fossil.... Im still not 100% sure on ID yet, I will have to consult my good friend, but im pretty sure its from a chunk of the ammonite pavement....Ive got a couple of days hard polishing ....
I decided to have a go at a Blog.. .. 'all new to me'...but its time I got with the programme, as they say.... so its based on prepping one of my large ammonite finds... so some of the images I'm going to add initially , youve probably seen before in the other thread... but you have to start somewhere......my only motivation in doing this to share my finds and prepwork which I enjoy doing and in doing so, maybe you can enjoy them to and to help reinforce our common interest in sharing what we f
