DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 A few months back, I spent three days along the Whitby coastline. It was a very good three days of collecting, but my last find of them days, is to this day my best find. I had decided to head to Runswick Bay. My legs and back were exhausted, so decided the short walk to to car park would be fairly light on the legs. Now, in my experience, Runswick hasn’t really produced much in the past for me, so I hadn’t gotten my hopes up too much. So you can imagine my shock, when I see a rather large nodule day there in Situ. I’ll let the pictures say the rest 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Blinking marvelous! What a brilliant find! Congratulations! 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 That's a beaut! Is there a lot of pyrite in it? 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Excellent.. good prep job too - I like ho you're able to retain most of the shell. I take it the 'filling' inside the shell is solid pyrite? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 51 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said: Blinking marvelous! What a brilliant find! Congratulations! Thank you, can’t wait for it to be finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 23 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: That's a beaut! Is there a lot of pyrite in it? It certainly Luckily the outer is only coated badly, there’s some spots where it’s more prominent than others. It’s the joys of these Yorkshire nodules. I have a Hildoceras in a nodule that’s fully pyrite. It’s been a living nightmare trying to prep it. I envy other places for this reason haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 16 minutes ago, Wrangellian said: Excellent.. good prep job too - I like ho you're able to retain most of the shell. I take it the 'filling' inside the shell is solid pyrite? Thanks, there’s a few annoying tool marks on some which were unavoidable with how awkward the matrix can be sometimes. Some areas tend to be worse than others with the pyrite. I have some nodules which make me want to pull my hair out with how bad it can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 12 minutes ago, DanJeavs said: It certainly Luckily the outer is only coated badly, there’s some spots where it’s more prominent than others. It’s the joys of these Yorkshire nodules. I have a Hildoceras in a nodule that’s fully pyrite. It’s been a living nightmare trying to prep it. I envy other places for this reason haha Patience is a virtue (Of course that easy for me to say I've had my struggles with that stuff as well.) 1 Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: Patience is a virtue (Of course that easy for me to say I've had my struggles with that stuff as well.) It certainly is! Especially when you find good specimens like these, I’m still contemplating weather to go into the bottom right corner. I have a feeling there’s a few more beauties in there! There’s also two pretty large ones on the rear of the nodule, although they’re no where near complete so have left them. Hoping to head out to Germany next year, any recommended spots to head out to? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 3, 2018 Author Share Posted September 3, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ludwigia said: Patience is a virtue (Of course that easy for me to say I've had my struggles with that stuff as well.) There rear ones previously mentioned 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Looks like you have the entire extended family in that rock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doushantuo Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 terrifc find,Dan! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamL Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Was the second picture after you opened it? Or you found it opened like that. Someone must have been crazy to leave that. 1 Yorkshire Coast Fossil Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 13 hours ago, caldigger said: Looks like you have the entire extended family in that rock. Certainly so, hopefully there's a few more family members to reveal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJeavs Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 2 hours ago, LiamL said: Was the second picture after you opened it? Or you found it opened like that. Someone must have been crazy to leave that. Yes mate, that was after opening it while there. It must have been from a fall that day I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Nice find and prepp. Looking forward to seeing the end product. 1 Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJB Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 A nice rock for sure. and how cool to be prepping out a multi block! RB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 On 4.9.2018 at 12:24 AM, DanJeavs said: It certainly is! Especially when you find good specimens like these, I’m still contemplating weather to go into the bottom right corner. I have a feeling there’s a few more beauties in there! There’s also two pretty large ones on the rear of the nodule, although they’re no where near complete so have left them. Hoping to head out to Germany next year, any recommended spots to head out to? There's a lot to choose from and I wouldn't know where to start until you tell me a little more exactly which part(s) of the country you're planning to visit. In the meantime, you could check out my content under Europe, since I've posted quite a bit about German sites in the past going back a few years. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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