Unidentified small fossil

Unidentified small fossil
Released	7 September 2017 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	No
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Noteable	No
Destroy	Drop
Examine	A small paleontological find ready for cleaning.
Values
Value	100 coins
High alch	60 coins
Low alch	40 coins
Weight	0.141 kg
Advanced data
Item ID	21562

An unidentified small fossil is a fossil that can be obtained while performing certain activities on Fossil Island:

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 100 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

In addition, after helping reconstruct the Museum Camp, a player can claim 5 unidentified small fossils from Peter, who can be found panning just west of the camp.

They can be traded to the Fossil Collector in exchange for 100 numulites.

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

Cleaning[edit | edit source]

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

To clean fossils, players must use an 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 small fossils will give the player a small fossilised limbs, spine, ribs, pelvis, or skull. A set of these allows the player to place them in a small 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 2,000 experience in any skill above level 20, along with 2 kudos per display.

Item sources[edit | edit source]

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Ammonite Crab	25	1	3/350
Ancient Wyvern	210	1	30/875
Ancient Zygomite	109	1	1/50
Bowl of fish	N/A	1	1/175
Deranged archaeologist	276	1	6/175
Drift net fishing		1	30/87,500
Herbiboar	80	1	1/50
Hoop Snake	19	1	3/350
Lobstrosity	68	1	1/70
Long-tailed Wyvern	152	1	1/35
Soil Fossil Island	1	1	1/28,000
Spitting Wyvern	139	1	1/35
Sulliuscep	65	1	1/70
Taloned Wyvern	147	1	1/35
Tar Monster	132	1	1/70