YOUNG Fin Bridges came face-to-face with the past at the Museum of Natural History’s fossil hunt.

The four-year-old got hands-on with a giant ammonite – a marine invertebrate – which is 140 million years old, at the Parks Road museum.

He said: “I really liked it, and I liked when I got to feel them.

“They were quite smooth and quite bumpy and quite rough all at the same time.”

As part of the museum’s Afternoon Explorers series, youngsters got to make rubbings of the fossils with crayons to take home the complex patterns.

Fin’s dad, Jason, said: “We’re from Cheshire but the museum is somewhere my wife and I have been to many times over the years.

“This was Fin’s first visit, because he’s of an age where we think he can really appreciate it now.

“He absolutely loved it, the best thing about it was the crafty activities that he did, because he got to get up close and touch the fossils, which was unlike most museum exhibits.”

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