Lyme Regis Ammonite Preparation
Channel: Benjamin Brooks
Date: 2012-11-01

Showing you how to go about preparing a calcite (Calcium Carbonate) crystal ammonite out of one of the many types of sedimentary nodule found in the Black Venn Marls between Lyme Regis and Charmouth on the West Dorset coast. This gives you some idea of how the fossil shops, museums and rock-hounds do it!

The equipment used in this video is a Model TT "pneumatic fossil preparation pen" produced by Ken Mannion and currently in use at the Fossil Workshop in Lyme Regis.


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(It is he who made the pneumatic chisel/airpen)

The Fossil Workshop:   Website Under Construction


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