Petrified Collection

The Snake
A colourful book illustration of a petrified looking man, being consistricted by a huge, green snake that is coiled around his body. Date: circa 1917

Petrified Trees

Stanton Drew Stones
Stanton Drew Stone circle is celebrated in folklore as the members of a wedding party lured by the devil to celebrate on the sabbath and thus becoming petrified!

Napoleonic era cartoon woman in bonnet on hot day
Ink and watercolour cartoon no.2 Walking fast and far, in a hot sun to overtake a woman?you have decided?is Angelic till on eagerly turning as you pass her you are petrified by a Gorgon

The Pines - Petrified Forest - Santa Rosa, California - Queen of the Forest with a new live oak growing out of the petrified trunk! Date: circa 1930s

Bockee Residence - Petrified Forest - Santa Rosa, California
The residence of Mrs. Ollie Bockee. The Pines Petrified Forest on the Santa Rosa to Calistoga Road - 67 Miles north of San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Petrified Forest 1923
The Petrified Forest, Arizona Date: 1923

A Desperate Jump 1911
Look before you leap! A petrified skier soars through the air. Date: 1911

Suffragette, To My Valentine. Petrified young man recoils from the advances of his erst while girlfriend with the rhyme, You were always glad to see me, in the days when I courted as a boy

Hoylake, Merseyside - Submerged (Petrified) Forest Date: circa 1910s

Tubicaulis africanus, tree fern
Common plants of the Palaeophytic. Part of a petrified trunk of the tree fern Tubicaulis africanus, approximately 14cm wide, from the Permian Period, Tanganyika, Africa

Palaeosmunda williamsonii, fern
Petrified trunk of the fern Palaeosmunda williamsonii, approximately 4cm wide, from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, dating back to the Permian Period, about 250 - 299 million years ago

Petrified conifer trunk
Containing precious opal, width approx. 10 cm, discovered at White Cliffs, New South Wales, Australia. Dates back to the Late Cretaceous period

Petrified wood
Close-up showing the petrified wood from the coniferous forest, Arizona, U.S.A dating back to the Triassic period 200 to 251 million years ago

Araucarioxylon arizxonicum, conifer
Polished section through the trunk of Araucarioxylon arizxonicum, the dominant conifer of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA. Width approx. 25 cm. Dates back to the Late Triassic period

Dinosaur footprints found in the hills of Arizona
Petrified dinosaur footprints, cleared of lime deposits and full of water, in the snow capped hills of Arizona, a discovery made by Mr C. L Bernheimer

Victims of Petrification
Unfortunate victims of the petrifying spring at Clermont- Ferrand, France

Dropping Well / Yorkshire
The Dropping Well, a petrifying spring at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England. Anything suspended in the water becomes petrified in a coat of limestone

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