Thank you and glad the package made it! Hope you enjoy your ammonite

Thanks! Was hoping to have another video out this week but the trip I did with friends and their kids was busy and I didn’t film sadly. Another will appear next week.

It succeeded but luckily I’ve got a solid skull and it didn’t sink me. Will have to dodge better next time or just stay at longer range

Glad you’ve enjoyed it. I try to show off things I find but I appreciate I tend to focus on things I take home rather than all of the many fossils that are also on the coast. Will keep working on it and thanks for your feedback!

Great to be back on the coast and even better the finds were good. Thought about cutting the rock from the video but thought it made a much better warning than just my words and hopefully helps others avoid any injuries down the line

Thanks! The bigger Hildys will wait til I’ve got a proper prep setup. I’ve got some things hopefully coming back from prep in the next weeks and will get the peronoceras off then

Im looking forward to getting up that way mid june, not been for a while or done much prepping, watching these vids makes me want to crack on with somthing

@@terrydodsworth7350 it’s funny how quickly the need to go back out reappears after some time off the coast or away from fossils. All the funds are making me desperate to get a proper air scribe setup though

Then you must treat yourself. I managed 18 months of the dremel and decided to take the plunge, it is better and quicker prepping things with an airpen which makes it more pleasing but i still use the dremel on things with the long fine point and you can certainly do just as good work with the dremel but the airpen knocks the harder pyrite to bits that the dremel would struggle with . I would like an air abraider but where do you stop 🤦‍♂️😉👍

@@terrydodsworth7350 it’ll happen when I get a shed to put it all into. I’m hoping this year. I’ve got a lot of pyrite and Dacs I’ve suffered with on the dremmel and would love to get the prep down from 2hrs 😂

Head is fine thankfully, I was very lucky. The cliffs being so active was why the finds were great but it was definitely a mistake not realising the shelf was on the cliff and the rocks were coming out a lot further than expected. I still think best place for Hildoceras is Ravenscar. It was very productive last time I was there for them.

@Andrew Cuff - Fossils I've yet to make it to ravenscar. I'm not the greatest for heights and so I'm limited to going when I can have someone with me to help me down and back up again.

It’s a big hill but actually has a gentle slope or steps most of the way down. Think Saltwick for access, just long

@@dinoskool that's useful to know. Thank you. Looking forward to your next video

@@annetalbot9151 are you around on Tuesday? I'm going on my own as my family is not interested in fossils like I am. I was thinking of burnistone bay. The tides aren't timed the best so it has to be early 5am

Any day out fossil hunting is a good day. Bonus when the finds are as good as they were

Thanks. Great to be back!

@@dinoskool I hope you both had a good time. Just was telling my hubby I'm missing the videos 😁 and here they are!

@@KatieSido it was a lovely wedding and amazing honeymoon. I was missing the fossil hunts so was good to be back with great weather

Thank you! You can fossil hunt in either direction from Robin Hood's Bay. In this hunt I did go left towards the rocky foreshore and then kept wandering around. If you do go, just pay attention to tide times and be safe with the cliffs being particularly crumbly after all the rain!

@@dinoskool thank you so much! I went yesterday and already found some nice fossils! It’s my first time fossil hunting so I was incredibly excited! I steered clear of the cliffs because they were indeed crumbling and frequently rocks and stuff came down. I’m really hoping I can find some nodules today and hilby’s would be a dream come true haha. Thanks for the advice!

My pleasure. That area is full of gorgeous shells. You've got to go quite a long way around from Robin Hoods Bay to find Hildis but there are some very rare ammonites in Robin Hoods Bay itself. If you want to find Hildis I would suggest trying Saltwick or Sandsend

@@dinoskool thank you so much for your help and information! I’ve been going around Robin Hoods Bay the past 2 days, I haven’t gone as far out to the left as you have, but so far I haven’t been fortunate enough to find ammonites, nodules or hildis. But I’m going to follow up your advice and have a look by Saltwick! I’ve been advised to check out Port Mulgrave as well, so should be a fun little fossil hunting trip today

I explored Port Mulgrave yesterday morning. Lots of good nodules around. Well worth it if you are wanting an ammonite. Take your time down the rope, then go right at the bottom and you can start finding ammonites straight away and they usually get better as you go past the first landslide

The general rule of thumb is anything loose on the shore is fair game, so you could open the loose shale slabs on the beach. Just be careful that it won't trigger falls as you do it and don't dig into the cliffs or bedrock

@@dinoskool we will definitely keep a good distance from the cliffs when cracking any open 👍

Good to hear. Also be considerate of what you are breaking open. If there is visible fossils/nodules that you want, I'd say go for it. If you are just speculating and splitting shale blocks, you would probably be better off looking somewhere else as there tend to be more fossils loose than spending the time splitting slabs. Best of luck!

@dinoskool We visited yesterday and tried but wasn't as successful as last time, there was alot out looking. We almost witnessed someone get annihilated by a large rock fall and had to shout to get him to run as it hit pretty much where he was stood. Also we saw afew definitely getting stranded as the beach cut them off 🤦

Did we actually chat on the beach? I met two gentlemen just to the north of RHB who had a few shells and had shouted at the guy who didn't see the fall. Sorry you didn't have a lot of luck. Next time it's worth going further along to get past all the places that get heavily picked over

I believe current consensus is that the presence of organic material and phosphate (animal and plant remains) provide a nucleus for the mineral (calcium carbonate) precipitation. Eventually enough builds up that we have a nodule that covers at least some of the fossil. That being said, parts of some animals rarely nodularise (I think rostrum of crocs), whilst we do sometimes find empty nodules, so presumably the organic material has not fossilised in those cases.

@@dinoskool thank you so much for explaining.