Earlier today in the DPT I mention that I had another fossil I wanted to show you but I couldn't find it. Well it was hidden behind a photo frame on the shelf!
I remember exactly where I found this and how excited I was about it. I was in my final year of Junior school so I would have been about 10, nearly 11. We were on a residential trip from school for a few days at Cromer in Norfolk.
Our teachers were taking us along the beach for a walk. I don't think we were actually looking for anything, in fact I think we may have been doing some thing about the cliffs and the different strata layers. Is strata the right word?
Anyway, I remember just walking with a few of the girls and kicking the pebbles as I went. Suddenly I spotted something out of the corner of my eye....... one of the pebbles I had just kicked which looked like a perfectly smooth pebble on one side was actually an ammonite!!!! I didn't know that then!
I picked it up in great excitement and showed it to our teacher who showed it to the rest of the class. I remember being so proud that I had found it. A lot of the girls weren’t that impressed but the boys were. They all wanted it. They offered me all kinds of things if I would give it to them! I'm talking here of their pocket money, or sweets or comics that kind of thing. Remember we were children!
I didn't let any of them have it though. I knew it was special. When I got home my Dad wrote the date and the word Cromer on the back of it but that has long since disappeared. Weird actually, did the ink just get absorbed into the rock???
One day hopefully one of my children will continue to look after my little fossil.
Jilly
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