Rachel Popp, a Curator at the Isle of Wight County Museum, describes the item. "It is late 18th century, so probably about 1750 to 1800s time period. And it was made by early English settlers." ...

The Isle of Wight is one of the UK’s richest dinosaur fossil sites. The first discoveries were made in the early 1800s, long before the word dinosaur existed, but these bones helped to lay the ...