Unidentified large fossil

Unidentified large fossil
Released							7 September 2017 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							No
Options							Drop
Examine							A large paleontological find ready for cleaning.
Values
Value							300 coins
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							0.566 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							21566
Link							MOID

An unidentified large fossil is a fossil that can be obtained while performing activities on Fossil Island, including:

• Obtaining one as a drop from monsters on the island
• Chopping Sulliuscep mushrooms in the Tar Swamp
• Tracking a herbiboar's tracks in the Mushroom Forest
• Looting giant clam shells and treasure chests underwater
• Purchasing one from Mairin in her shop for 300 mermaid's tears
• Mining the boulder while in the Volcanic Mine
• Looting drift nets
• Digging in the soil at the Museum Camp
• Opening a bowl of fish

They can be traded to the Fossil Collector in exchange for 300 numulites.

They can also be enriched at the Mycelium pool and then exchanged at the House on the Hill for Prayer experience.

All unidentified fossils can be stored in Fossil Storage crates throughout Fossil Island.

Before players can clean fossils on Fossil Island, they must build the cleaning bench east of the Museum Camp using five planks, five nails, and a hammer, requiring 5 Construction and granting 100 Construction experience. Alternatively, players can use the specimen table in the Varrock Museum.

To clean fossils, players must use the unidentified fossil on the fossil cleaning bench (or specimen table) while wearing leather boots and leather gloves and in possession of a trowel, rock pick, and specimen brush. All of these items can be obtained by taking a cleaning kit from the wall in the Varrock Museum's cleaning area, or from the crate next to the cleaning benches on Fossil Island.

Cleaning unidentified large fossils will give the player either an identified large fossil, or a plant fossil. A set of these allows the player to place them in a large display in the Varrock Museum's paleontology exhibit, located at the bottom floor of the museum, below the natural history exhibit. Doing so will give an antique lamp that gives 5,000 experience in any skill level 35 or above, along with 2 kudos per display. A total of 25 large fossils and 25 plant fossils are required to complete every large display.

See Fossil Island fossils for strategies on obtaining fossils.

• The fossil resembles that of an ammonite, a sea creature that lived around 400 million years ago.
• Similar to how the other unidentified fossils appear to resemble fossils from the Pokémon franchise, the unidentified large fossil seems to resemble the Helix Fossil.

v t e Fossil Island fossils
Small	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Medium	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Large	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull
Rare	Limbs Spine Ribs Pelvis Skull Tusk
Plant	Roots Stump Branch Leaf Mushroom
Unidentified	Small Medium Large Rare
Related	Enriched bones Small Medium Large Rare Fossil Collector Ancient wyvern shield Numulites Varrock Museum Mycelium pool Strange Machine