"I give up. We’re not going to find any fossils here.
Where is Dura Den? It’s in Fife. Where is Fife? Scotland.
The Ordinance Survey map shows Dura Den in the parish of Kemback, Fife, and the estates and mills which are the landmarks in the following descriptions of the people who hunted the fossil fishes. This map was published in 1854.
‘Such was the state of geological science at the time that a great work could be done by a man with a quick eye, a good judgement, a clear notion of what had already been accomplished, and a stout pair of legs.’ (Geikie, 1875)
Some of them were brought together through the meetings of local and leading scientific societies such as the British Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Geological Society of London, and the Literary and Philosophical Society of St Andrews. Lively discussions and correspondence, not to mention bitter quarrels, took place because of the varied and often colourful personalities as well as the controversies of the day.
"I give up. We’re not going to find any fossils here.