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Description: | Brachiopods are sometimes called lamp shells, because they look a bit like the teracotta lamps that the Romans used. If you can imagine this shell resting on its side, so that the front of the shell that you see in the photograph is facing down, it will give you an idea of what a Roman lamp looked like. The lamps were filled with oil and a wick (like a candle wick), was burned to give light. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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