This week-end, we went to Hornsea. We stayed in a hotel and they had a big, big wheel from a ship, for steering it.
We went fossil hunting, and this time, we had all the tools, because Daddy had some for his birthday. We had a trowel for digging in the lumps that had fallen from the cliffs (they are made from clay, and stones are really hard to get out, even if they are already sticking out). We had a hammer for hammering rocks to see if there are any fossils inside, and bags to put our fossils in.
We went fossil hunting, and this time, we had all the tools, because Daddy had some for his birthday. We had a trowel for digging in the lumps that had fallen from the cliffs (they are made from clay, and stones are really hard to get out, even if they are already sticking out). We had a hammer for hammering rocks to see if there are any fossils inside, and bags to put our fossils in.
We found lots of these. They are called gryphaea, and we had to check how to say that, but people also call them "Devil's Toenails", that was from when they didn't know that they were fossils. In the picture, there are two types - the ones that were in the cliffs were all rough, and the ones that were on the beach were all smooth.
We didn't find many ammonites, but we found a few, and here are some pictures:
We also found some fossils in the big rocks that were put up as a sea defence wall, but they were too big to take them away with us. You can see a gastropod in this picture. How would you pronounce gastropod?
We found lots and lots and lots of colonial corals. I like saying that word! We found so many, and a humongous one - in the end, we left some behind for other people to find!
When we got home, we were cleaning all the fossils and sorting them out. We have a few what we don't know if they're fossils, can you help us? We will put them on the "Are These Fossils?" page.
On the way home we bought what we need to make the dinosaur footprint, and soon we can show you it and tell you about the dinosaur footprints we saw when we visited Martin Whyte. When we were in Hornsea, we kept looking for a T-Rex skeleton, but we didn't find one!
On the way home we bought what we need to make the dinosaur footprint, and soon we can show you it and tell you about the dinosaur footprints we saw when we visited Martin Whyte. When we were in Hornsea, we kept looking for a T-Rex skeleton, but we didn't find one!
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