NOT...A PIZZA !!
(BEST ORDERED LARGE WITH ANCHOVIES, HAM, CHEESE, AND SERPENT WORMS)
Gail went shelling at the beach last week. (Pauses to consider how Klingon that sounds. Smiles evily!)
She found a lot of ones which had been bored by predatory molluscs or other beasties.
(Also very Klingon! Songs could be sung...!)
I thought they would look interesting arranged on the light table and that it would help highlight the holes. It's singular how the holes are similarly placed on each shell. It must be the optimum placement to cut through the shell and extract the meat.
The holes are so well drilled that even a power tool would have difficulty duplicating them, especially the conical cross section. As someone who makes and wears suits of armour I have to say that these empty, pierced cuirasses give me the shivers!
I almost junked this shot because I found two of the shells were too thick to let much light shine through. Then I let it stand because I liked the fact that this testified to the persistence of the besiegers who breached (beached!) the defences. As we Aussies say, "Shell be right!"
NOT...A PIZZA !!
(BEST ORDERED LARGE WITH ANCHOVIES, HAM, CHEESE, AND SERPENT WORMS)
Gail went shelling at the beach last week. (Pauses to consider how Klingon that sounds. Smiles evily!)
She found a lot of ones which had been bored by predatory molluscs or other beasties.
(Also very Klingon! Songs could be sung...!)
I thought they would look interesting arranged on the light table and that it would help highlight the holes. It's singular how the holes are similarly placed on each shell. It must be the optimum placement to cut through the shell and extract the meat.
The holes are so well drilled that even a power tool would have difficulty duplicating them, especially the conical cross section. As someone who makes and wears suits of armour I have to say that these empty, pierced cuirasses give me the shivers!
I almost junked this shot because I found two of the shells were too thick to let much light shine through. Then I let it stand because I liked the fact that this testified to the persistence of the besiegers who breached (beached!) the defences. As we Aussies say, "Shell be right!"