Dog skull, great colour and patina. it is also making a

it is also making a great paperweight at the moment

weighing almost 185 pounds

These are long lived birds with a life span of over 55 years although many of the juvenile die in their first long migration

The razorbill is a colonial species that only comes ashore to breed

This one would originally have had a skull with it

Dog skull, great colour and patina. it is also making aThis is a real dog skull although I don't know what breed it is from. It looks to be about a spaniel sized breed. This skull has some of the best colour that I have seen on a skull. I can only assume that this has been lying either in peaty water or in a peaty area as the bone colour is a lovely caramel yellow colour which just highlights the white of the teeth. Unfortunately the lighting on the photographs did not show the colour off to it's best.