Top 10 🔔 Fossil Detectives – London & South England DVD –   🌟

Presenter Hermione Cockburn and her team of fossil experts reveal the fossils to be found in the heart of London, as well as travelling to the Isle of Wight, otherwise known as ‘Dinosaur Island’.

London might be the last place you would think of looking for fossils but signs of lost worlds and prehistoric lives are all around us – even in the city. In glamorous Old Bond Street Hermione is on the look out for fossils in the stone of the buildings themselves – with surprising results. London was once home to animals we now think of being exotic and dangerous. Lions hyenas and seven ton hippos once roamed the land where now there are black cabs and double deckers. When the foundations of Trafalgar Square were being built strange fossils of prehistoric beasts were discovered. From the vantage point of the BT Tower Hermione tells the tale of one of the fossils found there – a massive tusk of a long dead hippopotamus. The team then go to the Isle of Wight referred to as Dinosaur Island and met Billy Bragg and his son Jack.