Fossil ammonite, Portland Museum
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Fossil ammonite, Portland Museum
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 6 May 2011
This large ammonite has been mounted in the wall above the Museum's porch. There is a local tradition - on this quarrying island - of building ammonites into walls. There is another large specimen built into a garden wall on the west side of Wakeham, and a more recent example at the Heights Hotel - to name but two. I don't know how long this particular ammonite has been exposed to the weather, but it must once have been an even more striking object than it is now - when the detail at the outer end of the spiral was as crisp as it is nearer the centre. For a more general view of the Museum building, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2420871.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.539954
Longitude
-2.430072