Large piece of petrified / fossilised palm wood A slave cost about 12

A slave cost about 12 to 15 manillas in the 1490s

This is an interesting and unusual item

This skull was from a specimen found on a beach

The whole thing has been painted with what looks to be red ochre with two black rectangles on opposite sides

The vertebrae are also all present and strung together and the ribs are all present and intact

Large piece of petrified / fossilised palm wood A slave cost about 12Here's an unusual thing, particularly in the UK. This is a large piece of silicified petrified palm wood. This one is also unusual as unlike many of the pieces that are from species in the United States, this one was found in the Sahara desert about 40 years ago. Fossilized palm wood is also known as Palmoxylon. It is an extinct genus of palm found around the world. These plants lived from the Late Cretaceous (83 million years ago) until the early