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Hello! I hesitate to post after my last terrible misidentification of fossilised wood, but your kind help made me study harder, learn more, look harder - thank you! So I’m back with another request - I think I might have actually found wood this time? These are all from the Kimmeridgian Helmsdale Boulder Beds or nearby Portgower Boulder Beds, Scotland, UK. Dark photos are wet, mostly they go quite pale when dried out. In this case, I know wood is a known find in these areas, and I’ve found a scant few photos from seasoned collectors / geologists of finds from these locations said to be fossil wood that looks similar. But I’ve turned into the biggest pessimist and there was only a small amount of info to go on. If anyone would be kind enough to just confirm either way, I’d be so grateful (thank you!).

Hello! I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to give me an opinion about this… It struck me as looking like fossilised driftwood? I’ll be totally honest, just because it looked so much like a modern piece of driftwood at the ends. The striations seemed weird for rock normal banding, layering. Also, there seems to be faded bands running at right angles to the striations on a couple of faces - which again seemed a wood-like feature? I’m very happy to be wrong though! I was lucky, the tide was just going out when I spotted it still wet - it’s fairly unremarkable dry. It’s from the coast in Fife, Scotland. The rocks in this spot are sandstone / mudstone / siltstone, from fluvial, palustrine and shallow-marine environment, from the Carboniferous. Thanks so much for your time and thoughts!

Hello Everyone, today I went again to my favourite Pleistocene site - and a friend of mine found something that he thinks could be a fossilised wood. He thinks it could have been brought here by the glacier. It looks like this: It's not very big, as you can see - but quite heavy. Does this look like wood to you? I will appreciate your feedback. Kasia

The driftwood you see is locked in this calcite and shelly matrix from the Oxford Clay, Peterborough Formation. It is suggested there was landmass to the southeast of the Oxford Clay depositional area, known as the London-Brabant Massif, and that was the source of the driftwood that's found in the Oxford Clay. What's the chances of finding some borings of a Jurassic saproxylic beetle of some kind in the wood.

Hi all, I found this just down stream of my last find and it has a strange layer / seam through it. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the ancient volcanic activity in the area? Maybe it had a larger of ash over it then began growing again. Thoughts? Cheers

I wanted to share with you some impressions from my recent trip to Uzbekistan. We went there at the turn of March and April and therefore everything was still green and fresh (I don’t know what it is going to look like in a few months, when the temperature rises to 40 – 50 degrees C), but for the time being, Uzbekistan is covered with blooming cherry and mulberry trees, and omnipresent poppy flowers. There are of course places still covered by snow, like the Kamchik Pass – yes, there are a lot of stones, but no fossils whatsoever (I stopped in a few places and checked ). When it comes to sightseeing, Uzbekistan does not have a great variety of historical monuments – you can visit mainly mosques, medresas (islamic schools) and mausoleums. No offence to Uzbekistan, but they all look kinda …. same. Take a look and judge for yourself Tashkent Khiva Bukhara Samarkand Take my word for it – these are REALLY four different towns

Hi all, I bought this on Sunday thinking this might be petrified wood, can anyone confirm if that is the case? its quite distinctive so maybe someone knows a little more about it?

While on holiday in New Zealand we went to see the fossilised forest just outside Otago which was amazing. Also visited the Moeraki Boulders which are huge. Well worth the trip.