My favourite and rarest find from my latest long stay trip to the Isle of Wight (whilst working for a local museum).
To the layman's eye this might look like just a "funny rock" but it's actually a Hypsilophodon (small Ornithopod dinosaur) caudal vertebra within matrix. Finding any "Hypsy" fossils are rare and most of the time they are only commonly found in the aptly named "Hypsilophodon bed" which is further along the cliff beds to where I picked this up at Grange chine.
Sadly part of the vertebra is missing (hence the cross section) but if it had been complete it w