Fossil Dig

About this pack

Fossil Dig opens a quarry in the badlands. Dark grey shale is bedded in fine horizontal lines with small pale bone chips embedded, and a second block carries one large bone-white coiled ammonite in relief, filling nearly the whole face, which is the signature of the set. Rounded ochre sandstone cobbles come bare or with dry sand and bone chips packed into the gaps. Plain bedded shale, polished near-black shale with a cold sheen, warm ochre sandstone brick and bone-white chalk carry the structure. Pale weathered pine crate boards pair with dark creosoted timber, an upright dig post bound in broad bands of pale rope with a canvas strip, and its cut top showing pale rings inside a rope rim. A shelf of wooden specimen crates, stiff brushes, a brass hand lens and pale bone fragments, patched canvas tent cloth, a dark slate slab and dry olive scrub turf strewn with sand and bone chips finish the set. This is surface artwork only: no fossil can be dug up, nothing glows and no block behaves differently.