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Hi, I found this by the river hodder in Lancashire UK yesterday. It was about a foot square. Is it a fossil?
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Me and my boyfriend went for a walk in the nearby Aristide and Silverdale area of outstanding natural beauty a few weeks ago. We are both at uni in Lancaster so have been enjoying walks in the Lake District and nearby. I wanted to visit Jack Scout as a dissertation topic I was thinking about was related to the local geology of the area. I was not expecting to find loose fossils, and was paying close attention to the limestone rocks and pavement for fossils in situ until my boyfriend came up with a ‘funny rock’ to check with me and lo and behold, an impromptu fossil hunt began. Nothing is of great quality and I have found it very hard to find much literature on the area so nothing is really identified. But it is a truly beautiful area and a fun walk. I believe these fossils are from the Park Limestone formation of Jack Scout, there is lots of Carboniferous limestone deposited around 325-360 MYA.
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I have been digging in the garden in Rossendale, Lancashire, to clear an area to pave and put up a green house. The area has previously been a barn, demolished in the 1990s, and since then field, then mowed as lawn. After clearing the turf I started to level the earth and stones below. I found that the old barn floor was about 8" (20cm) down, composed of ruble stones. In amongst them I suddenly found this which I immediately saw a resemblence to tree fern stems/trunks that I had seen in museum. It is very dense, weighing in at just over a Kilogram, denser than the surrounding stones in the old floor. There is an old coal mine less than a mile away and one of the nineteenth century inhabitants is shown on the census, 1861 I think, as a farmer and miner. There is also evidence of several small unrecorded mine close to the garden than that. We have a borehole for water and the record of that shows 40 feet of shale and clay before solid rock is found. I note that besides the patterend surface there are several holes that look like burrows penetrating the object, especially visible at the ends. My assumption is that the burrows predate the end breakages as they would have weakened it at those points. My photos are too large to send all at once. Any ideas? Thank you
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Found this large rock fallen from a Jurassic scarred cliff face I wondered what could have caused the usual marks?
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References: Selden, P. & Siveter, D. 1987: The origin of limuloids. Lethaia, Vol. 20, pp. 383-392, Oslo.
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