A very cool rustic necklace pendant ... a small sterling silver pebble with an embedded tiny bronze star fossil, a crinoid star fossil ... endlessly interesting historic fossil jewelry for the fossil hunter or fossil collector in all of us.

The star fossils are also called sea lily fossils and date back up to 201 million years ago, perhaps even earlier and believe it or not they are very common fossils if you look in the right places. They were sea animals, like sea stars and sea urchins. 

- approximate measurement including small attached loop - 5/8“ (17mm) x just under 1/2” (12mm) at wider end and thickness 1/8" (4mm)
- pebble pendant metal - recycled sterling silver (.925 silver)
- star fossil metal - bronze
- star fossil measurement - 1/4" (7mm)
- shown suspended on an oxidized sterling silver cable chain, sold separately here
- photographed with a US dime and inch ruler for scale

I have sand cast a small pebble in sterling silver with the tiny bronze sea star that had been sand cast previously, embedding it much the way we might find the fossils embedded in the wild.  Then after cleaning up the casting I added the suspension loops and oxidized it to reveal the beautiful rustic texture.

The sand casting process - I create a mold in packed sand, torch melt the metal and pour it into the cavity of the sand mold. The cooled metal is then removed and the castings require quite a lot of clean up before being finished and fashioned into jewelry. It’s a process done one at a time, a new sand mold is made for each and every casting and therefore every item will vary uniquely with natural imperfections due to the sand casting process.
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