| Even more remarkable than the evidence of prehistoric man was the discovery of thousands of fossilised animal bones. |
| Here bats, fossilised coral, stalagmites and stalactites can all be found. |
| Mammoth skulls are made of light and thin bone and usually disintegrate before they can be fossilised. |
| For most people, the discovery of fossilised wood in a quarry would not be newsworthy. |
| Maybe these antediluvian creatures were having a good old natter about the ammonite down the road and then WHAM they got fossilised? |
| In the course of excavating the Manchester and Bolton Railway in the late 1830s, navvies unearthed large numbers of fossilised trees. |
