Thanks! Still very much learning with the prep and it's nice when things prep well. Just upgraded my compressor so I'm hoping to do even more when things settle down a bit more at home!

@dinoskool yes mate it's always a bit nice hectic when you have a newborn 😊 was the last compressor a bit underpowered??? Do you us air abrasive to????👍👍⚒️⚒️

The last air compressor was turning on every 20 min or so and caused vibrations in the current shed setup I had. Bigger compressor should cut that down (as it turns on less frequently) and allows me to get the abrasive system down the line

@dinoskool Always better to have the compressor cutting in less often especially if you have neighbours close by 🤫 😁 sound deadening too is a good option with a decent extraction system in place 👍👍⚒️⚒️

Thank you! He's keeping us very busy but the whole family is doing well

Thanks all around! Can't win them all with the finds but it was great to be out. Hoping to sneak out again this coming week due to the high chance of goodies with all this crazy weather but will depend how things at home are! Great to hear you've had some new goodies! I've got my first Paltech due to come back from prep but now want another one so will have to be back down in Boggle Hole at some point. Catch you soon!

You passed the test😆😆 😂😂 👍👍⚒️⚒️

Thank you! It's been an adventure at home over the last few weeks for sure, but I'm also excited to get some time on the coast again as the weather starts to become more wintery!

Thanks! Rowan is keeping us very busy (although admittedly asleep on me presently). Hopefully out hunting again soon after all the rain and high seas!

Thank you! Do love the dino artwork too. It's super cute

@@dinoskool let's hope R will follow in your footsteps 😊

Thanks for watching! Hopefully out again soon

Thanks for the kind words. The family is all doing well and keeping me very busy! Hoping to get out more in the coming weeks especially with all the rain and winds.

​@dinoskool I'm sure there will be plenty of wind and rain over the coming months so no rush the fossils will always be there lol, make memories mate. 👍👍⚒️⚒️

It was a good hunt. Sadly the rare things from the Blea Wyke layers haven't led to much but I'm still happy with my haul!

I hope my little one loves fossils, but if not he'll hopefully just love the outdoors and coast all the same! The weird thing on my bag is actually a mount for my camera. I'm planning to try and film a full hunt (or at least a solid hour) rather than doing lots of short clips. It's been a bit of practice getting something that might work and the mount looks weird and draws lots of questions.

@@dinoskool Cool I thought it may have been a GPS unit to record where you found your more interesting finds

I've got a GPS app on my phone for that so all of the bone finds have accurate locations. Everything I've found is loose and washed though so it's all moot when it comes to that level of detail

Thanks! We are still awaiting his arrival, but it'll happen soon enough I am sure!

Ravenscar always is good for the diversity, if not always the number of finds. Already looking forward to my next adventure down there, although I'm told the seals are back in the bay limiting access to the beach via the ferns and ticks... might be November and the cold weather before I'm back. Thanks! Hopefully not much longer to wait for the little one to come out, but now you've got me looking up where to buy a kid's hardhat!

I will not argue with that opinion. The Yorkshire coastline is truly a special place even if there weren't fossils, which are a happy bonus on any day out.

@@dinoskool I live down on The Sunny South Coast, the fossils are few and far between. Unless you're interested in microfossils of cocoliths! I've beautiful marrowfat pea sized bivalves shell. Also over the sixty years of my life I've found about a dozen sea urchin fossils, some preserved in chalk, some in flint. I still don't fully understand what the bandings of flint arise from. I'm now disabled with spinal injuries, you guys wave a wand, taking me to places I've always wanted to revist. Spent a couple of weekends at The Dracula Convention, with a goth girlfriend of mine. Beautiful area, great biking roads, and now you know how I got the spinal injuries.

@@dinoskool I do love Whitby, nice pubs, good beer and always good company.

The south coast has some lovely areas too, and generally warmer than up here! Shame your local area is mostly Cretaceous microfossils but still a bonus. Sorry to hear about your injuries, but glad we are able to take you along for some of our adventures, even if just virtually!

@@dinoskool Seriously, thank you. You take me back to wandering along the beach, beachcombing for wood and other weird and wonderful sights. I still get that same delight in discovery, vicariously through a lot of geology and palentological KZbinrs.

Thanks! I'm excited for that day but who knows if he'll enjoy the fossils!

Thanks! Not every day you find bone on the coast, let alone at Ravenscar. 2 verts was really a great day

Thanks! Not here just yet, but fingers crossed it won't be long to wait

Thanks! Snuck another hunt in whilst we still wait for the little one to come along which should be online in the next week or 2 depending on how busy things get 😅

@@dinoskool Nice one 😉

Thanks! More goodies in the next one too

Thanks. We are still waiting but hopefully soon 🤞

I'd done a lot of Google maps work based on the ukfossils website guide on the site so knew roughly where to go. It's definitely not a super easy site to find but hope you got some goodies!

Thanks for watching! Sadly I've not been out as much as I would like, but it sounds like the finds on the coast have been limited this summer. Hopefully out again soon!

I've only got 1 good one, and it came from Sandsend last winter after a couple of storms. Definitely the best place for them, but they are very hard to find especially with how heavily picked Sandsend is at the minute. Got to keep looking!

Thanks for watching!

It admittedly is a fairly delayed video, but there is still plenty to be found if you spend the time down there! Hoping to get out again soon but life has been busy busy

It's a good place, but at the minute feeling a bit heavily picked. Needs a few falls or some big seas to shift some things around.

@@dinoskool that's true, first time I went was a few years back and I didn't walk far. I now I go to kettleness and back or if I'm lazy all the way to Runswick for a drink and nibble, then drag myself up the hill of dread...to the bus and back to camp. .... That's a real love/hate relationship.. I did love seeing the arch and I missed it last visit.... Just hated not seeing it on the way back.(almost back, happy reminder gone. )

I think most fossil hunters have love/hate relations with the coast paths in and out. Very few are nice gently paths especially after a lot of walking and a bag full of rocks on a successful hunt. The path up by Runswick is brutal but at least there are some nicely placed benches to help out. Much like at Ravenscar where I know all my stopping points 😅 Hope you have some success when you are back over!

@@dinoskool you to, happy hunting

😂 I mean, probably... But I decided to have a change from the hill and slippery shoreline. Do I regret it? Not at the time, but now... had I found a massive Harpo then it definitely would have been worth it. That quest and uncertainty of what you will find is the joy of fossil hunting!

Thank you! Ravenscar is always good to me and it was another great day there!

It is my favourite thing about Ravenscar. Small beach, but a great diversity of finds to be had!

Thanks for the kind words. Another hunting video should be out next week and I've got some more fossils coming back from prep for some Before-After vids

There was actually a sequence recorded where I was planning to overly an image showing the layers, however getting a good geological/stratigraphic column to plonk on top was not doable without further delaying the video. It is on the list of things to add to future videos and once I've got it for one video/locale it will be much easier to add in every time

However, all of Ravenscar that I filmed at is uppermost Lias of Yorkshire so roughly 180 million years ago

Glad you like them! Should be a few more coming up after the last week without any!

Glad you enjoyed it

If you found devil's toe nails at Ravenscar I'd be surprised. Usually from the Lower and Middle Lias stuff from near Robin Hoods Bay or up north. That being said, if you were in RHB you definitely might have found an Amaltheus - usually distinct as they have a keel that looks a little like a rope with a series of small constrictions rather than a single smooth keel.

@@dinoskool I was between raven and boggle when I started picking them up..... Ended up with about 6-8 good ones, big and complete. Tbh tho, this trip saw alot of shells, muscles etc.

Ah, that makes more sense. As you head left from Ravenscar to Boggle you start going back quite quickly into the beds that have the devil's toe nails. I tend to go right from Ravenscar to the upper lias beds which don't have them.

@@dinoskool walked robin hood to the second cove at ravenscar.. Did the silly thing of shimmy round the beach end of Robin Hoods bay (didn't know I'd have to wait there lmao.. All dry 😊) Only spotted them coming back, once I saw one I saw lots. Mind if i ask... Found what appears to be a small dak..... But it has a line running round it..??.. The ribs look dak. The line sinks in. Any ideas?

@@nirvanamadpaul I'm impressed you walked that far! Can't say from your description. Feel free to send a pic to my email arcuff @ outlook . com (spaces removed) and I'll see what I can do on the ID. Whereabouts did you find the specimen (that also helps narrow down the age)

Thanks! Ravenscar is always good to me, but the next hunt is somewhere different for a change too

Ravenscar is probably one of the hardest spots to get to due to the height of the cliff. This also protects it from a lot of casual fossiling meaning the finds can be good. At the minute, you can follow the path pretty much straight down to shore where the seals haul out on the headland. From there, cut along the shoreline to get to the main fossil hunting sections thus avoiding the ticks. This route isn't possible in winter as the seals haul out in different areas and have pups in some of the bays you have to cross. It's a tough old time with lots of clambering and slippery rocks there and back as well as then having to get back up the cliff with hopefully a bag of rocks. I would not recommend if you are not fit or experienced with fossiling on this bit of coast as it will not be as rewarding as other beaches will be. Definitely do Port first and see how you find that!

@@dinoskool thanks for the advice and quick response! Really appreciate it! Last year I went fossil hunting as well and indeed went to port Mulgrave. Got some lovely finds there and ended up not going to ravenscar, but this time I’m too curious what I could find there. But will definitely go to port Mulgrave first to get a taste of it again before heading to ravenscar. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out the route when I get there. The path you mentioned, is that just straight up where you put ravenscar into google maps and then you follow the route down? Or is it more complicated to find the path down to shore? I think I see a path down to south cheek but idk if that’s the right path to take to avoid the ticks Thanks again!

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYKuqp6wpcmDqq8 should cover it but let me know if not

@@dinoskool I’ll give it a watch! Thank you so much!

Thanks!

I've been lucky with the smaller hildys down at Ravenscar. The big ones less so! There are definitely lots of shelly blocks and it is easy to miss the keels in them let alone bony bits. Hopefully whoever it was will see the next ones!

Thanks! Was nice to get out and Ravenscar is always good for producing a nice diversity of rarer specimens. Was also good to actually have some time to do a bit of prep to better show off the finds before posting the video!

I don't think I fell that day. Can't say the same about the previous trip where I was very soggy from landing butt first in the sea 😂

@@dinoskool ha ha, oh dear. Last time I was there (in the winter) the second I stepped off of the muddy grassy slope onto the big beach rocks I went head over heels and would’ve smashed my head if it wasn’t for my back pack!!

Yikes, scary! Glad the backpack saved you from the fall. I've definitely been thankful for my backpack cushioning my fall before, but can't decide if the fall wouldn't have happened without the backpack though

@@dinoskool 😂

Thanks for saying that. Made me smile! Thanks for watching and hoping to be out again this weekend so there should be some more hunts soon!

P. boulbiense is apparently the striatulum subzone but that's only exposed at Ravenscar on the Yorkshire coast. You do get them with Grammos and other ammonites though. Andreas's blog has a good bit on the Pseudos from Yorkshire: andysfossils.com/2014/07/31/its-all-in-the-umbilicus-and-in-the-provenance-pseudolioceras/

Yeah, his site is a fantastic resource 😊

Yes, it is! Sandsend specifically. Should have linked to the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ane7mYSYjpllgZo

Thanks! It was nice to have some time between the hunting and publishing the video to prep some of the finds. Still much to do on improving things all around but slowly getting there. Thanks for watching!

It is the downside of the pyrite preservation. But they don't just rust, the sulphur component of the pyrite also turns into sulphuric acid making the breakdown even faster The Yorkshire ones seem better than the Dorset pyrite ammonites at least when it comes to their stability

@@dinoskool thanks for the reply, living in lower Weardale, we go looking for fossilised trees with the grandkids...all the best.

Thanks for the kind words. I always love it down there and it's great to be able to bring everyone along!

Thanks for your kind comments as always ,and thanks for watching me having far too much fun collecting fossils again!

Thank you! I'm very pleased with how they've come out

I'm very pleased with how they've both come out, and no doubting Mark has done fantastic work again. Now needing to find some more, or maybe a Harpo in a nodule!