Phillip the kudos belonge to you....yes,Steve and Chris and Alex will get the credit for excavating it, but you"re the one that found it...i don't know if you'll remember,but myself and Chris met you on the beach a few months ago,we had a chat about the skull and we asked if we could follow you down the beach...you obliged... we got to the cut off point,right around the corner where said skull was found and we stopped....not thinking we could go any further... you just took your wellies off,stuffed them in your rucksack and waded round.......it took us another half hour to get the balls to follow you,but eventually we got round,but never managed to catch up with you...i'm glad you're now getting the recognition that you deserve,i hope they get the funding to get the rest of it out...
Yes I remember you well. I excavated some pliosaur verts that day. Then on the way back to Clavells I spotted a large plesiosaur humerus embedded in the rock. I managed to extract it and only just made it back round Clavells with the waves coming uo to my chest and a very heavy rucksack. I didn`t bother to take my wellingtons off on the way back, there wasn`t time. I just let them fill up with water.
I believe a bone fell out of the cliff and was lost sometime after the main excavation. Did I get that right?? If so would it be worth your while putting out a video with the shape and size of the bone illustrated and appeal to the collecting community to come forward and discuss whether it could be reunited with the specimen. You can’t be 100% sure that it’s been claimed by the sea. It might be worth a punt. Well done Phillip on your Guinness book of records certificate.
A great account, and an amazing fossil, well worth the visit to the Etches collection.
Couldn't agree more!
Well done Ash, another great video. Thank you.
My pleasure!
Phillip the kudos belonge to you....yes,Steve and Chris and Alex will get the credit for excavating it, but you"re the one that found it...i don't know if you'll remember,but myself and Chris met you on the beach a few months ago,we had a chat about the skull and we asked if we could follow you down the beach...you obliged... we got to the cut off point,right around the corner where said skull was found and we stopped....not thinking we could go any further... you just took your wellies off,stuffed them in your rucksack and waded round.......it took us another half hour to get the balls to follow you,but eventually we got round,but never managed to catch up with you...i'm glad you're now getting the recognition that you deserve,i hope they get the funding to get the rest of it out...
Yes I remember you well. I excavated some pliosaur verts that day. Then on the way back to Clavells I spotted a large plesiosaur humerus embedded in the rock. I managed to extract it and only just made it back round Clavells with the waves coming uo to my chest and a very heavy rucksack. I didn`t bother to take my wellingtons off on the way back, there wasn`t time. I just let them fill up with water.
I believe a bone fell out of the cliff and was lost sometime after the main excavation. Did I get that right?? If so would it be worth your while putting out a video with the shape and size of the bone illustrated and appeal to the collecting community to come forward and discuss whether it could be reunited with the specimen. You can’t be 100% sure that it’s been claimed by the sea. It might be worth a punt. Well done Phillip on your Guinness book of records certificate.
Part of the coracoid was lost, but it had mostly crumbled as it was exposed to the elements for too long. There will be nothing left to find of it.