LindasPencils wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:10 pm
I also have a Wallaby skull and a blackbird skull... as well as nests and shells and bugs and butterflies... and all sorts of stuff!
and.....
Laurene wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:13 pm
...but a couple of ammonite fossils, a dinosaur foot imprint... piece of small Miocene era whale vertebrae, and 2 small Oreodon partial skulls (...closely related to goats or sheep)...
Oh!! Now I'm feeling right at home
In the studio, alongside the small skulls, I have two birds nests, an assortment of shells - including freshwater mussels from our beck (Yorkshire dialect for a stream), a lump of wood with a hole chewed through it by Chinchillas, another piece of wood with 1cm holes bored by a big marine worm, and...
A wide selection of three types of Oak Gall. It fascinates me how a tiny wasp can alter the DNA of an Oak so it builds a customised home for it out of an acorn.
A selection of rocks and crystals, because I've been interested in geology since my schooldays.
Likewise, a number of fossils. Nothing spectacular because my best stuff disappeared during a move many years ago. Just Crinoids, an Ammonite, imprints of leaves, the ripples of a sandy beach, some fronds that I can't identify, various shells...
The body of a huge "wasp" that is actually a harmless Giant Wood Wasp that I found drowned at our local garden centre.
A lovely old wooden door lock - probably 1800s - riddled with woodworm. That's bound to be in a video sometime soon. And a lovely big old key to go with it - although it's not the key to that lock.
Part of a green-glazed earthenware pottery handle from a medieval jug that I found in a local field - as verified by "The Doc", our good friend Chris who is an archaeologist.
And, outside in my workshop, where the decomposing bits are, I have a goat's skull and a sheep skull - both our own animals at some time. And a seagull's head somewhere. Oh, and a Magpie that I found dead in the field.
But also in there I have a four feet long length of oak that was being used a fence post. It has a very large mortice cut into it. Because, before it was a fence post it was part of the outbuildings of Mousefoot - a farm next door to us, the remains of which have recently been ploughed into oblivion.
And...
drumroll please.......
Before that
it sailed the seven seas as part of an old sailing ship. So much history in one piece of wood!
I think I'm just scratching the surface here.... I have, shall we say, an enquiring mind
And I wonder why I never seem to make a profit in this business. 
