Do most of you know that
amber is plant resin? If you've read any of this week's earlier blogs on the theme, you will be reasonably well versed in amber lore, so you'll be pleased to know that as a lead-in I'm going to relay gobbets of information not previously revealed.
Amber is
very old. The oldest specimens so far identified date back 320 million years to the era of Palaeozoic tree-ferns. More modern ambers were formed during the Mesozoic period between 66 and 250 million years ago in the populations of cedars, redwoods and ancient pines that covered much ...
