Finger ring carved from a nodule of Upper Lias clay stone showing the central whorl of an ammonite (Dactylioceras commune) fossil. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Finger ring carved from a nodule of Upper Lias clay stone showing the central whorl of an ammonite (Dactylioceras commune) fossil. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England either North Yorkshire Whitby or Dorset Lyme Regis
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1931
Date collected: By 1931
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1931
Materials and processes: Material Fossil, Process Carved
Dimensions: Diameter: max 30 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1931.85.5
Research and responses: See http://bedrockfossils.com/dactylioceras.html for image of this fossil [AP 29/09/2006]

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