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Idioms are frequently fossilized metaphors: the thin red line , which lies at the back of this piece of wordplay, means the heroic resistance of the few against many, and originally described a regiment of redcoated highlanders at the battle of Balaclava.
Amber is not a semi-precious stone, but a fossilized tree resin.
That is patent rubbish, of course, for it can easily be demonstrated that written language cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons: the more formalized versions of language that are reflected there, the relatively complex constructions that are accepted as normal to writing but would be difficult to construct viva voce and difficult to assimilate unless read, the preservation of fossilized forms--both words and grammar--made possible by written records, and so on.
The association of lime and bones is not accidental: Limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is nothing but the fossilized skeletons of tiny sea animals, and calcium is the principal ingredient of bone; when Shakespeare wrote, in The Tempest , that Of his bones are coral made, he stated a truer fact of nature than he may have known.
From viewing stations, visitors may observe the excavation of fossilized remains.