Ammonite Snakestone Dactylioceras commune from Whitby, Lower Jurassic, Upper Lias
In Whitby folklore ammonites are the petrified remains of snakes. The Saxon Abbess St Hilda (614-680 AD) turned the snakes into stone in order to clear a site for the building of an abbey.
Size: 3400px × 5100px
Photo credit: © Sabena Jane Blackbird / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ammonite, ammonites, ammonitida, ammonoid, ammonoidea, ammonoids, ancient, background, blackbird, british, carved, carving, cephalopod, cephalopoda, cephalopods, commune, conchology, cut, cut-, cutout, dactylioceras, english, extinct, folklore, format, fossil, fossilised, fossilized, fossils, geological, geology, head, hilda, history, invertebrate, invertebrates, isolated, jane, jurassic, lias, life, malacology, marine, mollusc, mollusk, myth, mythology, myths, natural, organism, organisms, palaeontological, palaeontology, paleobiology, paleontology, portrait, prehistoric, sabena, saint, sea, sea-shell, sea-shells, seas, seashell, serpent, serpents, shell, snake, snake-head, snake-stone, snakes, snakestone, species, specimen, specimens, spiral, spiralled, st., stone, stratigraphy, uk, upper, vertical, whitby, white
