Fossil hunting in Cherry Hinton chalk pit, Cambridgeshire. One of quarry workers is handing a find, an ammonite perhaps, to a gentleman collector. Hand-coloured engraving from the Rev. Isaac Taylor "Scenes in England", Ongar, 1822.

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