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Post by Fractal on Aug 26, 2015 15:26:38 GMT
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Post by Cherry on Aug 26, 2015 15:47:06 GMT
They are beautiful columns and the carved stones in the arch facing are impressive too.  |
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Post by daitheplant on Aug 26, 2015 19:45:40 GMT
There is no way I am any sort of expert, but could they be Sea Urchins and Sea Cucumbers Steve?
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Post by SueA on Aug 26, 2015 19:46:10 GMT
Wow, they're fantastic Fractal , I like fossils, don't know much about them though! One of the big slabs of stone we've put by the pond has fossils in it. |
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Post by daitheplant on Aug 26, 2015 19:49:44 GMT
Post a pic Sue.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2015 21:32:32 GMT
Fascinating aren't they ... they look like corals to me (I'm probably wrong)
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Post by Fractal on Aug 27, 2015 9:42:34 GMT
I'll let you know if I find out what they are. Yes SueA, post a pic of the fossils in your stone by the pond. |
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Post by grindle on Aug 27, 2015 16:28:51 GMT
they are fascinating Fractal what a great use for them |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2015 18:31:39 GMT
Here's a fossil I found many years ago in a road cutting that went through some coal seams. I discovered it's a Lepidodendron tree root.
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Post by SueA on Aug 27, 2015 19:17:07 GMT
That was a lucky find @hywel, it could easily have been burnt along with the coal if it had been mined. Here's a few photos of the rock with the fossils by the pond, it's quite big about 1ft by nearly 2ft, we've had it about 30 years, can't remember where we got it, it was originally part of the rockery by the pond in the old garden. I only know it's about 30 years because I've got the little British fossils paperback book we bought at the time dated 1984!     This is the book  the fossils on our rock look like they may be crinoids like these on the bottom pic. on the back  Looking at the round fossils in your pics. Fractal some of them could possibly be corals as @hywel suggested?  |
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Post by daitheplant on Aug 27, 2015 19:19:22 GMT
Steve, the central one in the third image resembles a cuttlefish.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2015 19:22:16 GMT
That's fantastic SueA. I'd love to have that in my garden
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Post by Bess on Aug 27, 2015 21:12:17 GMT
Amazing - those columns at the church in Morpeth are so unusual. I like your big stone too Sue I wonder what fossils they are? At home in the Fens as a kid 15-20 years ago we used to get 'bog oaks' dug up by the ploughs occasionally, although it's pretty rare these days. I only ever saw a couple. We found a few of teeny fossils in the stones along our river bank when they 'dredged' it, but mainly we just found arrowheads - I am trying to think what we did with them! |
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Post by dianthus on Aug 28, 2015 20:14:47 GMT
The columns have rugose corals in them... these are singular corals rather than the colonies that are the ones making up the Great Barrier Reef.
SueA - you have crinoid stems in your rock, which are like sea lilies and look like flowers on stems, but are animals.
Loving your piece of petrified wood @hywel 
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Post by SueA on Aug 28, 2015 20:34:56 GMT
Thanks dianthus , that's what I thought they were from looking in the book, ours only seem to have the 'stem' sections though, the ones in the book have some complete specimens with 'roots' & 'flowers' , they do look a lot like plants don't they. |
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