I'm sat in the Oxfordshire Arts pottery studio, idly making some ammonites, thinking I will add them as mini-tiles to a beach themed splashback I am doing.   "Why don't you paint that gold?" I hear in background conversation elsewhere in the studio.  Bingo.  That sets me thinking about fool's gold ammonites, very commonly found on Charmouth and Lyme Regis beaches - a place I have been many, many times.  That led me to think about whether I could get the pottery glaze colour to emulate a fool's gold ammonite.  Which then made me think about hiding them on the beach - thats how it started.  Charmouth and Lyme Regis are well known fossil hunting hotspots and is where Mary Anning, the now famous paleontologist and fossil hunter, lived.  

Many people visit Charmouth and Lyme Regis in the hope of finding a fossil or two.  Some are lucky, some are not - and I thought it would be nice to add some bigger "ammonites" which might be easier to spot.  The intent is to make people smile when they find them - the question will be: will they keep them, or hide them again for someone else?  And will they even let me know they found one?    I'd certainly be excited if I had found something like this!