A few weeks ago I was contacted by a local family who had a quantity of minerals, fossils and shells they had acquired during their times abroad in the Arabian Gulf.
They live only a few minutes from TV Towers so there was no difficulty in visiting to take a look for them.
The collection was quite extensive, comprising of a large quantity pieces that one would expect to see from that part of the world, except one piece of hematite from Cumbria!
Anyway as a collection it was outside of the usual TVM fare; I made a suggestion that the many small fossils might be of interest for Barry Taylor's Geology World, as handouts to visiting children etc.
The suggestion was taken up, and yesterday the fossils were collected and delivered to Barry.
Many thanks to the Barnard family for their generosity.
